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Solar flares in October 1993
C-class64
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM3.51993-10-09
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1992 | 207 | 24 | 1 | X1.7 |
| October 1993 | 64 | 3 | 0 | M3.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-10-09 | 19:09 | 19:13 | 26 | M3.5 | N11W78 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-02 | 06:28 | 06:32 | 21 | M1.4 | N10E24 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-09 | 08:09 | 08:10 | 9 | M1.1 | N11W78 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-27 | 06:36 | 06:39 | 16 | C9.4 | N09E39 | 7608 |
| 1993-10-03 | 09:07 | 09:30 | 40 | C8.6 | N08W02 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-01 | 23:48 | 23:53 | 37 | C8.5 | S14E69 | 7592 |
| 1993-10-20 | 09:45 | 10:01 | 27 | C7.8 | – | – |
| 1993-10-03 | 20:29 | 20:34 | 29 | C7.0 | N11W03 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-02 | 07:40 | 07:40 | 17 | C6.5 | N08E14 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-25 | 19:48 | 20:01 | 16 | C6.2 | N08E59 | 7608 |
| 1993-10-26 | 00:40 | 00:41 | 19 | C5.9 | N08E55 | 7608 |
| 1993-10-29 | 03:40 | 03:46 | 9 | C5.7 | – | – |
| 1993-10-08 | 14:09 | 14:21 | 34 | C5.5 | N11W63 | 7590 |
| 1993-10-31 | 11:01 | 11:22 | 131 | C5.3 | S22E37 | 7612 |
| 1993-10-02 | 12:12 | 12:12 | 14 | C5.0 | N10E21 | 7590 |
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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67 flares of class C or larger in October 1993; by M/X count it ranks 350 of 565 months.