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There have been more solar flares like the Carrington Event, they just didn't hit Earth. The last one was in 2012. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_

There have been more solar flares like the Carrington Event, they just didn't hit Earth. The last one was in 2012. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012

close04 7y ago
Ah, I read the "chance of it reoccurring" as "another massive storm hitting Earth". I'm sure they happen all the time, most just point in a different direction. We probably can't even detect the ones heading in the opposite direction from Earth, erupting from the other side of the Sun.
- petschge 7y ago
  Actually we can detect them, thanks to the Stereo satellites. (And also indirectly through helioseismology.)
  - buran77 7y ago
    *Satellite... We've been down to one since 2014. Still does good sentry duty though.