Daily report

Natural disasters on 20 September 2026

On 20 September 2026, this site recorded 2,615 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 1,123 were severe storm events. That is about the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,357). The largest earthquake was magnitude 6.4 in Papua New Guinea.

2,615Events recorded
15 Extreme
575 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

Ranked by severity, then by magnitude — not by what was published last.

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Tornado Warning — Clay, IL; Effingham, IL Tornado Extreme United States 23:59
Tornado Warning — Butler, OH; Montgomery, OH; Warren, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:54
تحذير عاجل | الابتعاد عن موقع الانفجار في منطقة العيس والمناطق المجاورة, Syrian Arab Republic Extreme Weather Extreme Syria 23:19
Fortes averses orageuses avec risque élevé d'inondation en Basse, Moyenne et Haute Guinée, ainsi que la zone côtière de manière particulière dans la nuit du 20 au 21 septembre 2026, Guinea Heavy Rain Extreme Guinea 19:37
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Taif : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:26
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Al Namas : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:24
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Rijal Al Ma : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:24
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Al Mejardah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:23
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Al Harjah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:22
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Abha : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:22
Warning, Heavy rain — Jazan region - Al Harth : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:19
Warning, Thick Fog — Eastern region - Al Jubayl : The entire, Saudi Arabia Extreme Weather Extreme Saudi Arabia 17:24

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm1,123
Wildfire508
Extreme Weather478
Flood214
Heavy Rain111
Earthquake64
Heatwave59
Storm Surge28
Cold Wave24
Tornado3
Landslide2
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon1

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States758
Poland504
China109
India69
Algeria67
Indonesia51
Saudi Arabia44
Brazil40
Argentina39
Zambia35

Events at sea, and satellite fire detections with no country resolved, are counted in the total above but cannot appear in this table.

How to read this page

These are events that reached the monitored feeds on this date — USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET and FIRMS, NOAA/NWS, EMSC and ReliefWeb. Recorded is not the same as happened. A flood in a country with no public alerting system may not appear here at all, and a single storm can be published as several records by different agencies.

Counts are also uneven by design of the sources, not of the day: satellite fire detection publishes hundreds of zones where a national weather service publishes one warning for a whole region. That is why the comparison above is against this site's own recent daily average rather than against any absolute idea of a normal day.

Full method on methodology; every feed and its update cadence on data sources.