Monthly review

Natural disasters in October 2026

In October 2026, this site counted 12,101 natural hazard events from official feeds, 9,788 of them rated severe or extreme (satellite fire detections and routine regional warnings are not counted). The most common were severe storm events (3,080). The United States had the most recorded events (2,934). The largest earthquake was magnitude 8.0 in Panama on 9 October. Per day, that is 25% more than in September 2026.

12,101Events counted

1,215Extreme

8,573Severe

2,231Earthquakes

By hazard and severity

Severity is the level the issuing agency or feed gave each event.

Hazard	Extreme	Severe	Moderate	Minor	Total
Severe Storm	119	2,961	0	0	3,080
Heavy Rain	470	2,277	0	0	2,747
Earthquake	3	22	197	2,011	2,233
Wildfire	470	811	35	27	1,343
Flood	8	1,242	0	18	1,268
Cold Wave	34	682	0	0	716
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon	73	234	19	4	330
Storm Surge	30	240	0	0	270
Heatwave	2	97	0	0	99
Drought	4	2	0	0	6
Volcanic Activity	0	2	2	0	4
Landslide	0	3	0	0	3
Other Hazard	2	0	0	0	2
All hazards	1,215	8,573	253	2,060	12,101

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.

Event	Type	Severity	Where	Date (UTC)
M8.0 Earthquake — 14 km SW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama	Earthquake	Extreme	Panama	9 Oct
M7.7 Earthquake — 12 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama	Earthquake	Extreme	Panama	9 Oct
M7.0 Earthquake — 191 km ENE of Nagqu, China	Earthquake	Extreme	China	22 Oct
Extreme Rain warning — Dodekanisa Islands	Heavy Rain	Extreme	Greece	31 Oct
Red warning for Dodekanisa Islands, Greece	Heavy Rain	Extreme	Greece	31 Oct
Red Rain Warning — Basilicata	Heavy Rain	Extreme	Italy	31 Oct
Red Thunderstorm Warning — Basilicata	Severe Storm	Extreme	Italy	31 Oct
Red Rain Warning — Puglia	Heavy Rain	Extreme	Italy	31 Oct
Red Thunderstorm Warning — Puglia	Severe Storm	Extreme	Italy	31 Oct
Forestfire — Alakol district (Jetısu oblysy), Kazakhstan	Wildfire	Extreme	Kazakhstan	31 Oct
Forestfire — Aral district (Kyzylorda Region), Kazakhstan	Wildfire	Extreme	Kazakhstan	31 Oct
Squally weather with strong surface wind 40-50 Kmph gusting to 60 kmph very likely along and off Andaman and Nicobar coast. Sea conditions are very likely to be rough. Fishermen are advised not to v	Severe Storm	Extreme	India	31 Oct
Warning, Heavy rain — Jazan region - Ad Dair : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia	Heavy Rain	Extreme	Saudi Arabia	30 Oct
Warning, Heavy rain — Jazan region - Al Harth : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia	Heavy Rain	Extreme	Saudi Arabia	30 Oct
अंडमान और निकोबार तट पर और उसके आसपास 40-60 किमी/घंटे की रफ्तार से हवा चलने तथा समुद्र की स्थितियाँ उग्र होने की सम्भावना है। मछुआरों को सलाह दी जाती है कि वे 31 अक्टूबर तक समुद्र में न जाएं।, India	Severe Storm	Extreme	India	30 Oct

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
United States	2,934
Kazakhstan	1,241
India	1,174
Spain	716
Saudi Arabia	697
China	615
Italy	426
Algeria	410
Panama	326
Mexico	204

805 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	3
6.0 to 6.9	21
5.0 to 5.9	197
4.0 to 4.9	1,385
below 4.0	625

Largest: M8.0 Earthquake — 14 km SW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama, 9 October 2026, 17:56 UTC.

Compared with other months

Per day, because a month in progress or a first month is shorter than a full one. Counts also move when this site adds or loses a feed, not only when the world changes.

Figure	October 2026	September 2026
Days covered	31.0	30.0
Events counted	12,101	9,359
Events per day	390.4	312.0
Severe or extreme	9,788	7,267
Earthquakes M5.0+	221	179

Events per day against September 2026: 25% more.

No comparison with October 2025: this site's records begin in July 2026.

Daily reports for October 2026

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What is counted

Events this site stored from official feeds whose event time falls in 1–31 October 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

WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) · 8,443 — Warnings courtesy of the issuing national meteorological service, via the WMO Alert Hub.
EMSC — European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre · 1,317 — Earthquake data courtesy of EMSC
MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) · 1,313 — MeteoAlarm. Data provided by EUMETNET members.
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · 914 — Earthquake data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System · 54 — Alert data from GDACS (European Commission Joint Research Centre & United Nations OCHA)
NASA EONET — Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker · 46 — Natural event data courtesy of NASA EONET
NOAA National Hurricane Center · 9 — Tropical cyclone data courtesy of NOAA / National Hurricane Center
ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) · 3 — Disaster reports from ReliefWeb, a service of UN OCHA
USGS Volcano Hazards Program · 2 — Volcano alert levels courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program

Each feed's terms and update cadence: data sources.