M3.9 SOLAR FLARE ! Another farside solar flare peaking to M3.9 was registered by an unnumbered Active Region not fully rotated onto the earth facing side of the disk, Old Active Region 11726 at 00:57 UTC today. As this eruption took place from an active region just rotating the northeastern limb of the solar corona. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) will not have an earth bound component or earth directed. This Active region has has yet to be re classified and should be numbered later today. As yet no coronal mass ejection (CME) has been observed with latest imagery, but a strong CME is expected to be leaving this blast site but will not have an earth bound component.
M5.7 SOLAR FLARE !! A very strong solar flare peaking to M5.7 was registered by newly numbered Active Region 11739 at 17:32 UTC. As this eruption took place from an active region just rotating the northeastern limb of the solar corona. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) will not have an earth bound component or earth directed. This Active region has a very complex magnetic field and it still growing in size so we can expect more M-Class Flares or possibly an X-Class solar flare in the coming week. This active region will be earth-facing in 4-5 days.
M 6.5 EARTHQUAKE - NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G. April 23, 2013
