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M5.0 solar flare on 2016-07-23

ClassM5.0NOAA report

Peak02:112016-07-23 UTC

Duration37 min

Peak flux5.0e-05W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank in year	4 / 318
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	7
Solar cycle	Cycle 24

Compared with the strongest flares of 2016

M7.6 07-23M7.6

M6.7 04-18M6.7

M5.5 07-23M5.5

M5.0 07-23M5.0

M2.3 01-01M2.3

M2.0 07-24M2.0

M1.9 07-24M1.9

M1.8 02-13M1.8

M1.3 08-07M1.3

M1.2 02-15M1.2

M1.2 07-21M1.2

M1.2 11-29M1.2

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	05:00	05:16	24	M7.6	N02W74	12567
	05:27	05:31	6	M5.5	N02W74	12567

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 M5.0 flare that began 2016-07-23 01:46 UTC; No. 4 of 318 C-class-or-larger flares in 2016.