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Solar flares in August 1992
C-class188
M-class12
X-class0
LargestM4.81992-08-03
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1991 | 179 | 33 | 2 | X2.1 |
| August 1992 | 188 | 12 | 0 | M4.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-08-03 | 06:29 | 07:02 | 116 | M4.8 | S09E68 | 7248 |
| 1992-08-20 | 14:10 | 14:35 | 58 | M4.0 | N15W29 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-20 | 20:30 | 20:35 | 47 | M3.0 | N16W33 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-20 | 08:59 | 09:05 | 54 | M2.9 | N16W27 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-03 | 10:09 | 10:12 | 14 | M2.3 | S09E63 | 7248 |
| 1992-08-20 | 16:48 | 17:27 | 113 | M1.9 | N17W34 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-21 | 11:53 | 12:03 | 44 | M1.9 | N16W43 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-02 | 23:11 | 23:16 | 46 | M1.6 | S11E64 | 7248 |
| 1992-08-11 | 22:22 | 22:28 | 24 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 1992-08-21 | 00:07 | 00:16 | 59 | M1.3 | N18W34 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-12 | 02:30 | 02:33 | 19 | M1.0 | S13W51 | 7248 |
| 1992-08-21 | 10:58 | 11:08 | 31 | M1.0 | N14W40 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-24 | 09:33 | 09:55 | 24 | C9.1 | N20W84 | 7260 |
| 1992-08-25 | 18:25 | 19:20 | 76 | C8.7 | – | – |
| 1992-08-02 | 19:27 | 19:29 | 49 | C7.7 | S10E72 | 7248 |
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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200 flares of class C or larger in August 1992; by M/X count it ranks 215 of 565 months.