Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 2012
C1258
M123
X7
LargestX5.42012-03-07
M/X flares by month
- January 2012
- February 2012
- March 2012
- April 2012
- May 2012
- June 2012
- July 2012
- August 2012
- September 2012
- October 2012
- November 2012
- December 2012
Nearby years (M + X)
10
1
0
23
119
130
111
221
106
16
54
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-03-07 | 00:02 | 00:24 | 38 | X5.4 | N17E27 | 11429 |
| 2012-10-23 | 03:13 | 03:17 | 8 | X1.8 | – | – |
| 2012-01-27 | 17:37 | 18:37 | 79 | X1.7 | N27W71 | 11402 |
| 2012-07-12 | 15:37 | 16:49 | 113 | X1.4 | N13W15 | 11522 |
| 2012-03-07 | 01:05 | 01:14 | 18 | X1.3 | N22E12 | 11430 |
| 2012-03-05 | 02:30 | 04:09 | 133 | X1.1 | N16E54 | 11429 |
| 2012-07-06 | 23:01 | 23:08 | 13 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2012-10-20 | 18:05 | 18:14 | 14 | M9.0 | – | – |
| 2012-01-23 | 03:38 | 03:59 | 56 | M8.7 | N18W25 | 11401 |
| 2012-03-10 | 17:15 | 17:44 | 75 | M8.4 | – | – |
| 2012-03-13 | 17:12 | 17:41 | 73 | M7.9 | N19W59 | 11429 |
| 2012-07-19 | 04:17 | 05:58 | 159 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2012-07-08 | 16:23 | 16:32 | 19 | M6.9 | S14W83 | 11514 |
| 2012-03-09 | 03:22 | 03:53 | 56 | M6.3 | – | – |
| 2012-07-05 | 11:39 | 11:44 | 10 | M6.2 | S20W32 | 11515 |
| 2012-07-28 | 20:44 | 20:56 | 20 | M6.1 | S25E54 | 11532 |
| 2012-05-10 | 04:11 | 04:18 | 12 | M5.7 | N12E22 | 11476 |
| 2012-07-31 | 10:46 | 11:30 | 100 | M5.7 | S23E85 | – |
| 2012-07-02 | 10:43 | 10:52 | 14 | M5.6 | S22E02 | 11514 |
| 2012-08-18 | 00:24 | 01:02 | 43 | M5.5 | N21W65 | 11543 |
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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1,388 flares of class C+ in 2012: 123 M-class and 7 X-class.