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Solar flares in February 2010
C-class44
M-class9
X-class0
LargestM8.32010-02-12
Sunspot number31.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-02-12 | 11:19 | 11:26 | 9 | M8.3 | N26E11 | 11046 |
| 2010-02-07 | 02:20 | 02:34 | 19 | M6.4 | N21E10 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-08 | 07:36 | 07:43 | 10 | M4.0 | – | 11045 |
| 2010-02-06 | 18:47 | 18:59 | 22 | M2.9 | N21E17 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-08 | 13:32 | 13:47 | 18 | M2.0 | – | 11045 |
| 2010-02-06 | 21:31 | 21:37 | 11 | M1.3 | – | 11045 |
| 2010-02-08 | 11:57 | 12:03 | 9 | M1.1 | – | 11045 |
| 2010-02-12 | 17:52 | 18:08 | 23 | M1.1 | N28W53 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-08 | 21:01 | 21:23 | 27 | M1.0 | N23W12 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-07 | 04:42 | 04:52 | 12 | C9.9 | N20E07 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-13 | 12:28 | 12:39 | 20 | C9.6 | – | 11048 |
| 2010-02-08 | 05:12 | 05:23 | 18 | C8.6 | N21W01 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-12 | 07:18 | 07:25 | 10 | C7.9 | N24E13 | 11046 |
| 2010-02-08 | 04:04 | 04:15 | 16 | C7.7 | N21W01 | 11045 |
| 2010-02-08 | 05:59 | 06:06 | 14 | C6.8 | N21W01 | 11045 |
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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53 flares of class C or larger in February 2010; by M/X count it ranks 259 of 565 months.