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M5.1 solar flare on 1992-01-01

ClassM5.1NOAA report

Peak20:331992-01-01 UTC

Duration86 min

Peak flux5.1e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	24 / 2134
Other M/X flares that day	5
M/X flares that month	40
Solar cycle	Cycle 22
Position on disk	S16W58
Active region	AR 6985 (21 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 1992

X9.0 11-02X9.0

X3.9 06-25X3.9

X3.3 02-27X3.3

X1.8 06-28X1.8

X1.7 09-06X1.7

X1.7 10-30X1.7

X1.4 02-16X1.4

X1.3 09-06X1.3

X1.2 07-08X1.2

X1.0 01-26X1.0

M7.8 03-15M7.8

M7.6 02-06M7.6

Other M/X flares that day

Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
03:03	03:14	51	M1.2	S12W18	6988
03:23	03:31	28	M2.8	S18W47	6985
03:42	03:54	47	M5.8	S11E67	6993
11:18	11:31	41	M3.3	S09E64	6993
20:11	20:23	39	M2.4	S12W26	6988

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 1992-01-01 19:58 UTC; No. 24 of 2,134 C-class-or-larger flares in 1992.