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Solar flares in April 1993
C-class89
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM8.71993-04-18
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1992 | 157 | 8 | 0 | M5.6 |
| April 1993 | 89 | 3 | 0 | M8.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-04-18 | 19:07 | 19:09 | 64 | M8.7 | N10E55 | 7477 |
| 1993-04-06 | 23:43 | 23:46 | 9 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 1993-04-22 | 14:07 | 14:09 | 65 | M1.5 | N11E04 | 7477 |
| 1993-04-08 | 20:34 | 20:37 | 93 | C9.2 | N16E62 | – |
| 1993-04-10 | 23:31 | 23:34 | 23 | C9.1 | S08W51 | 7469 |
| 1993-04-11 | 06:12 | 06:16 | 10 | C8.9 | – | – |
| 1993-04-07 | 13:56 | 13:57 | 30 | C7.6 | S12W06 | 7469 |
| 1993-04-10 | 17:39 | 17:47 | 44 | C6.6 | S07W47 | 7470 |
| 1993-04-08 | 19:37 | 19:58 | 49 | C6.5 | S10W21 | 7469 |
| 1993-04-11 | 00:24 | 00:28 | 21 | C6.2 | S13W54 | 7469 |
| 1993-04-08 | 02:11 | 03:20 | 149 | C5.9 | S06W41 | 7465 |
| 1993-04-06 | 11:50 | 11:56 | 62 | C5.6 | S08W18 | 7465 |
| 1993-04-20 | 12:51 | 12:53 | 23 | C5.6 | N11E31 | 7477 |
| 1993-04-06 | 22:39 | 22:47 | 15 | C5.2 | – | – |
| 1993-04-20 | 17:44 | 17:52 | 31 | C5.1 | N11E29 | 7477 |
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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92 flares of class C or larger in April 1993; by M/X count it ranks 349 of 565 months.