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X0.1 solar flare on 1976-03-28

ClassX0.1NOAA report

Peak19:321976-03-28 UTC

Duration69 min

Peak flux1.0e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank among X flares (1975 – Jun 2017)	462 / 491
Rank in year	3 / 153
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	10
Solar cycle	Cycle 21
Position on disk	S07E28
Active region	AR 690 (40 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 1976

X0.2 04-30M2.0

X0.1 03-23M1.0

X0.1 03-28M1.0

M0.4 03-21M0.4

M0.3 08-22M0.3

M0.2 03-21M0.2

M0.2 03-28M0.2

M0.2 05-01M0.2

M0.2 08-18M0.2

M0.1 03-24M0.1

M0.1 03-25M0.1

M0.1 03-26M0.1

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	05:55	05:58	23	M0.1	S07E34	690
	20:58	21:00	11	M0.2	S07E23	690

All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.

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A X0.1 flare that began 1976-03-28 19:12 UTC; No. 3 of 153 C-class-or-larger flares in 1976.