Hi Radni,

The location of sunspot regions, which produce all major solar flares and a lot of the coronal mass ejections, changes over the solar cycle.

Sunspots form in bands on either side of the equator. Early in an eleven year solar cycle these bands are closer to the poles and then they move closer to the equator as the cycle goes on.You can see plots showing this at these web sites:

http://solarscience.msfc....v/SunspotCycle.shtml

http://www.windows2univer...ivity/butterfly.html

Terry