Five days of flares and CME’s – 26 M and X-class solar flares

23 of the 26 M- and X-class flares on the Sun between 18:00 UTC on October 23 and 15:00 UTC on October 28, 2013, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. It also shows the coronal mass ejections, great clouds of solar material bursting off the sun into space, during that time as captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.  
ANOTHER X-FLARE
Consider it a parting shot. Just before sunspot AR1875 rotated over the sun’s western limb on Oct. 29th, it unleashed a powerful X2-class solar flare. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the explosion’s extreme ultraviolet flash.  
M 6.2 earthquake struck offshore Maule, Chile
Strong earthquake registered as M 6.2 (USGS, EMSC) occurred at 02:51 UTC on October 30, 2013. The epicenter was located 9 km (6 miles) SSE of Constitucion and 268 km (167 miles) SW of Santiago, Chile.  
5.3-magnitude earthquake hits China’s Jilin Province
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Hunchun city in north-east China’s Jilin Province in the early hours today. No casualties or damage was reported so far, local officials said. The quake hit the city at 4.17 a.m. local time with its epicentre at a depth of 539 km, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said.  

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