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M7.7 solar flare on 2012-07-19

ClassM7.7NOAA report

Peak05:582012-07-19 UTC

Duration159 min

Peak flux7.7e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	12 / 1388
Other M/X flares that day	0
M/X flares that month	48
Solar cycle	Cycle 24

Compared with the strongest flares of 2012

X5.4 03-07X5.4

X1.8 10-23X1.8

X1.7 01-27X1.7

X1.4 07-12X1.4

X1.3 03-07X1.3

X1.1 03-05X1.1

X1.1 07-06X1.1

M9.0 10-20M9.0

M8.7 01-23M8.7

M8.4 03-10M8.4

M7.9 03-13M7.9

M7.7 07-19M7.7

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 M7.7 flare that began 2012-07-19 04:17 UTC; No. 12 of 1,388 C-class-or-larger flares in 2012.