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Solar flares in January 2002
C-class182
M-class22
X-class0
LargestM9.52002-01-09
Sunspot number189.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2001 | 174 | 10 | 0 | M7.7 |
| January 2002 | 182 | 22 | 0 | M9.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-01-09 | 17:42 | 18:01 | 30 | M9.5 | N13W02 | 9773 |
| 2002-01-14 | 05:29 | 06:27 | 176 | M4.4 | – | – |
| 2002-01-31 | 14:36 | 14:44 | 14 | M3.6 | – | – |
| 2002-01-12 | 18:32 | 18:43 | 31 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2002-01-02 | 12:48 | 12:52 | 7 | M2.4 | S07W68 | 9754 |
| 2002-01-13 | 19:35 | 19:46 | 14 | M2.2 | S07W48 | 9775 |
| 2002-01-05 | 18:19 | 18:40 | 32 | M1.9 | N14E53 | 9773 |
| 2002-01-12 | 15:05 | 15:19 | 28 | M1.7 | S05W26 | 9775 |
| 2002-01-14 | 01:52 | 01:56 | 11 | M1.7 | N05E44 | 9782 |
| 2002-01-09 | 11:01 | 11:13 | 29 | M1.6 | N13E08 | 9773 |
| 2002-01-16 | 10:05 | 10:13 | 13 | M1.5 | S05W75 | 9775 |
| 2002-01-13 | 03:04 | 03:10 | 9 | M1.4 | N17W40 | 9773 |
| 2002-01-12 | 19:25 | 19:29 | 9 | M1.3 | S11W39 | 9775 |
| 2002-01-22 | 08:52 | 09:00 | 11 | M1.3 | S02W37 | 9791 |
| 2002-01-26 | 19:26 | 20:05 | 68 | M1.3 | S15E78 | 9802 |
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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204 flares of class C or larger in January 2002; by M/X count it ranks 147 of 565 months.