Natural disasters in August 2026
In August 2026, this site counted 2,337 natural hazard events from official feeds, 24 of them rated severe or extreme (satellite fire detections and routine regional warnings are not counted). The most common were earthquake events (2,184). Indonesia had the most recorded events (361). The largest earthquake was magnitude 7.7 in Indonesia on 14 August.
By hazard and severity
Severity is the level the issuing agency or feed gave each event.
| Hazard | Extreme | Severe | Moderate | Minor | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquake | 2 | 13 | 157 | 2,012 | 2,184 |
| Wildfire | 0 | 1 | 96 | 17 | 114 |
| Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon | 0 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 24 |
| Flood | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| Heavy Rain | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Drought | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Volcanic Activity | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All hazards | 3 | 21 | 274 | 2,039 | 2,337 |
The most serious events
Ranked by severity, then magnitude. At most 2 from one hazard in one country, so one storm warned region by region does not fill the list.
Countries with the most recorded events
A count of events, not of harm: a country with a dense warning network records more than one without.
| Country | Events |
|---|---|
| Indonesia | 361 |
| Mexico | 213 |
| Timor-Leste | 135 |
| Puerto Rico | 104 |
| Philippines | 75 |
| Japan | 64 |
| Chile | 37 |
| United States | 26 |
| Papua New Guinea | 22 |
| Tonga | 22 |
890 events, mostly at sea, have no country and are counted only in the totals.
Earthquakes by magnitude
Earthquakes this site recorded. Very small ones are not collected, so the lowest band is not a full count.
| Magnitude | Earthquakes |
|---|---|
| 7.0 and above | 2 |
| 6.0 to 6.9 | 11 |
| 5.0 to 5.9 | 157 |
| 4.0 to 4.9 | 1,230 |
| below 4.0 | 780 |
Largest: M7.7 Earthquake — 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia, 14 August 2026, 21:58 UTC.
Compared with other months
No earlier month has enough records to compare with. This site's records begin on 21 July 2026.
Daily reports for August 2026
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What is counted
Events this site stored from official feeds whose event time falls in 1–31 August 2026 (UTC). Not counted: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (grid cells, not named fires), US National Weather Service county warnings, tornado and marine warnings, and national weather warnings below "severe". Those are hundreds a day and would measure how busy each agency is rather than what happened. The daily reports count every stored record, so their totals are larger.
Recorded is not the same as happened. A flood in a country with no public alerting may not appear at all, and one storm can arrive as several records. These are events, not casualties. Full method on methodology.
Sources this month
- EMSC — European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre · 1,174 — Earthquake data courtesy of EMSC
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · 1,006 — Earthquake data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
- NASA EONET — Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker · 107 — Natural event data courtesy of NASA EONET
- GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System · 42 — Alert data from GDACS (European Commission Joint Research Centre & United Nations OCHA)
- ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) · 8 — Disaster reports from ReliefWeb, a service of UN OCHA
Each feed's terms and update cadence: data sources.