As far as I know, you can't replicate this alert without enabling that option. If you do enable that option, you can cause a flash from Terminal using:
osascript -e "beep"
However, if you don't want to enable that option, you can use invert colours. Using the invert colours Accessibility option can causetwice causes the screen to flash though and, therefore pressing the keyboard shortcut ⌃⌥⌘8 twice will cause a flash:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events" to repeat 2 times
key code 28 using {command down, control down, option down}
delay 0
end repeat