It was completely collapsed at the beginning of the M3 and CME hitting the Earth.
Also, I have had a terrible headache that has just been getting worse as the day has been going by. It is really bad now. The Earth is still getting hit very hard right now - 8:30 PM est. The magnetosphere is white hot right now.
Link to magnetosphere
Here is the magnetosphere for 1/22/12.
Spaceweather has said that satellites were exposed to the solar wind for a time, due to the magnetic field being pressed so far down during the Flare and CME hit.
CME IMPACT: Arriving a little later than expected, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field at 0617 UT on Jan. 22nd. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the impact strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field and briefly exposed satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma. Shifting lines of magnetic force induced strong ground currents in Norway and sparked bright auroras over the upper reaches of North America.
Update - 1/23/12 - Another large solar flare happened overnight - an M8 flare with a CME - it is Earth directed, but may go more North of the Earth.
ALMOST-X FLARE AND CME: This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion's M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare's extreme ultraviolet flash:
The Solar and Heliosphere Observatory (SOHO) and the STEREO-Behind spacecraft have both detected a CME rapidly emerging from the blast site. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab estimate a velocity of 2200 km. There is little doubt that the cloud is heading in the general direction of Earth. A preliminary inspection of SOHO/STEREO imagery suggests that the CME will deliver a strong glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 24-25 as it sails mostly north of our plane
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