The article in the July 31 "Science" journal on this general topic may be worth the attention of the genuinely curious: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/504.full Also these guys: https://bioengineer.org/a-method-has-been-developed-to-study-extreme-space-weather-events/ And so forth. It's a hot topic, with the new satellites and other advances in data acquisition.