infer which observed a given solar flare simultaneously, it is important to define what exactly constitutes a flare. The most commonly accepted catalog is that of the *Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite* (GOES) event list provided by NOAA/SWPC. This defines a solar flare as a continuous increase in the one-minute averaged X-ray flux in the long-wavelength channel (1–8Å) of the GOES *X-ray Sensor* (XRS: @hans96) for the first four minutes of the event. The flux in the fourth minute must be at least 1.4 times the initial flux. The start time of the event is then defined as the first of these four minutes. The peak time is when the long-wavelength channel flux reaches a maximum, thus defining its class. The end of an event is defined as the time when the long channel flux reaches a level halfway between the peak and initial values[^4]. However in the vast majority of instances the NOAA catalog does not provide information on the location of a flare on the solar disk. As this is necessary for cross-referencing with the pointing information for reduced field-of-view instruments, the location of each flare was determined from the SSW Latest Events list, which is accessible through the 