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M5.1 solar flare on 1981-07-15

ClassM5.1NOAA report

Peak08:181981-07-15 UTC

Duration68 min

Peak flux5.1e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	71 / 4022
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	74
Solar cycle	Cycle 21
Position on disk	S10W07
Active region	AR 3203 (34 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 1981

X5.9 04-24X5.9

X5.5 04-27X5.5

X4.0 02-26X4.0

X3.6 10-07X3.6

X3.5 07-26X3.5

X3.1 10-12X3.1

X3.0 10-14X3.0

X2.7 07-19X2.7

X2.6 08-12X2.6

X2.5 04-10X2.5

X2.4 02-20X2.4

X2.3 02-24X2.3

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	03:54	04:02	51	M1.9	S10W03	3203
	16:42	16:47	78	M2.5	S08W12	3203

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 M5.1 flare that began 1981-07-15 08:01 UTC; No. 71 of 4,022 C-class-or-larger flares in 1981.