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Solar flares in August 2010
C-class8
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.02010-08-07
Sunspot number28.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-08-07 | 17:55 | 18:24 | 52 | M1.0 | N11E34 | 11093 |
| 2010-08-15 | 18:23 | 18:30 | 14 | C5.4 | N15W71 | 11099 |
| 2010-08-18 | 04:45 | 05:48 | 126 | C4.5 | – | 11099 |
| 2010-08-14 | 09:38 | 10:05 | 53 | C4.4 | – | 11099 |
| 2010-08-01 | 07:55 | 08:26 | 100 | C3.2 | N20E36 | 11092 |
| 2010-08-14 | 18:03 | 18:08 | 7 | C1.6 | N19W54 | 11099 |
| 2010-08-17 | 23:05 | 00:01 | 77 | C1.5 | – | 11099 |
| 2010-08-16 | 16:34 | 16:39 | 17 | C1.4 | – | 11099 |
| 2010-08-05 | 20:39 | 21:35 | 84 | C1.3 | – | 11093 |
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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9 flares of class C or larger in August 2010; by M/X count it ranks 433 of 565 months.