Geomagnetic storm then 7.5 Earthquake
It wasn’t the sun that sent this weeks KP index up, it appeared to be a Gamma Ray Burst that hit our planet. Just days later a 7.5 Magnitude quake hit, Mozambique in Africa. A good example about how knowing a little bit about space weather and then watching out for seemingly unusual natural events. Floods are coming up in the global picture at the moment.
However the GRB could also have sparked off some pretty (but weak) light shows in the polar regions. The sun is very quiet at the moment yet the planet is being hit by other types of energy.