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Solar flares in April 1976
C-class20
M-class1
X-class1
LargestX0.21976-04-30
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-04-30 | 20:48 | 21:08 | 87 | X0.2 | S09W47 | 700 |
| 1976-04-29 | 19:19 | 19:20 | 21 | M0.1 | S08W31 | 700 |
| 1976-04-30 | 06:05 | 06:07 | 2 | C0.7 | S08W40 | 700 |
| 1976-04-30 | 12:42 | 12:50 | 20 | C0.3 | S06W41 | 700 |
| 1976-04-30 | 16:08 | 16:11 | 11 | C0.3 | S08W44 | 700 |
| 1976-04-20 | 17:40 | 18:36 | 66 | C0.2 | N04W78 | 693 |
| 1976-04-30 | 08:22 | 08:23 | 6 | C0.2 | S09W39 | 700 |
| 1976-04-21 | 15:22 | 15:26 | 18 | C0.1 | N04W24 | 697 |
| 1976-04-25 | 21:58 | 22:03 | 21 | C0.1 | N03E63 | 702 |
| 1976-04-30 | 08:44 | 08:45 | 4 | C0.1 | S07W36 | 700 |
| 1976-04-30 | 18:39 | 18:41 | 6 | C0.1 | S08W46 | 700 |
| 1976-04-01 | 06:05 | 06:09 | 28 | C0.0 | S12W14 | 690 |
| 1976-04-03 | 20:52 | 20:54 | 11 | C0.0 | S07W51 | 690 |
| 1976-04-18 | 12:26 | 12:26 | 2 | C0.0 | N02W53 | 693 |
| 1976-04-19 | 11:01 | 11:07 | 12 | C0.0 | N01W65 | 693 |
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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22 flares of class C or larger in April 1976; by M/X count it ranks 373 of 565 months.