Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1976
C138
M12
X3
LargestX0.21976-04-30
M/X flares by month
- January 1976
- March 1976
- April 1976
- May 1976
- June 1976
- August 1976
- September 1976
- October 1976
- November 1976
- December 1976
Nearby years (M + X)
2
15
41
195
309
406
520
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-04-30 | 20:48 | 21:08 | 87 | X0.2 | S09W47 | 700 |
| 1976-03-23 | 08:37 | 08:39 | 4 | X0.1 | S05E90 | 690 |
| 1976-03-28 | 19:12 | 19:32 | 69 | X0.1 | S07E28 | 690 |
| 1976-03-21 | 07:56 | 08:00 | 39 | M0.4 | N04W28 | 688 |
| 1976-08-22 | 10:21 | 11:58 | 97 | M0.3 | S06W90 | 729 |
| 1976-03-21 | 18:29 | 18:45 | 48 | M0.2 | N04W32 | 688 |
| 1976-03-28 | 20:58 | 21:00 | 11 | M0.2 | S07E23 | 690 |
| 1976-05-01 | 21:42 | 21:54 | 53 | M0.2 | S09W60 | 700 |
| 1976-08-18 | 18:45 | 18:51 | 11 | M0.2 | S12E79 | 730 |
| 1976-03-24 | 00:17 | 00:19 | 19 | M0.1 | N02W67 | 688 |
| 1976-03-25 | 11:48 | 12:16 | 100 | M0.1 | S05E72 | 690 |
| 1976-03-26 | 07:21 | 07:23 | 14 | M0.1 | S06E64 | 690 |
| 1976-03-27 | 12:02 | 12:08 | 20 | M0.1 | S10E47 | 690 |
| 1976-03-28 | 05:55 | 05:58 | 23 | M0.1 | S07E34 | 690 |
| 1976-04-29 | 19:19 | 19:20 | 21 | M0.1 | S08W31 | 700 |
| 1976-03-26 | 00:01 | 00:04 | 3 | C0.9 | S05E64 | 690 |
| 1976-03-31 | 04:53 | 04:58 | 35 | C0.9 | S08W04 | 690 |
| 1976-03-26 | 14:39 | 14:47 | 25 | C0.7 | S08E61 | 690 |
| 1976-04-30 | 06:05 | 06:07 | 2 | C0.7 | S08W40 | 700 |
| 1976-01-13 | 08:58 | 09:03 | 18 | C0.6 | S14E62 | 676 |
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.
About this page
153 flares of class C+ in 1976: 12 M-class and 3 X-class.