Daily report

Natural disasters on 23 September 2026

On 23 September 2026, this site recorded 2,493 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 836 were severe storm events. That is about the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,567). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.7 in Samoa.

2,493Events recorded
37 Extreme
528 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Heavy Rain with thunder and lightning and gusty wind 40-50 gusting to 60 kmph is very likely to occur at many places over Gajapati, Ganjam, Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada in next 3 hours., India Heavy Rain Extreme India 23:22
Light thunderstorm with lightning, squally wind 50-60 kmph with Heavy Rain is very likely to occur at a few places over Alluri Sitharama Raju, Anakapalli, Parvathipuram Manyam, Srikakulam, Visakhapatn Heavy Rain Extreme India 22:55
Heavy Rain with thunder and lightning with gusty wind 40-50 gusting to 60 kmph is very likely to occur at many places over Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada in next 3 hours., India Heavy Rain Extreme India 20:32
Warning, Heavy rain — Bahah region - Hajrah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:52
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Al Mejardah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:51
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Rijal Al Ma : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:50
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Adam : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:50
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Taif : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:50
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Ardiyat : The entire, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:49
Warning, Heavy rain — Jazan region - Ahad Al Masarihah : The entire, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:48
Warning, Heavy rain — Jazan region - Al Harth : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:48
light thunderstorm with lightning and Heavy Rain, squally wind 50-60 kmph is most likely to occur at most places over Alluri Sitharama Raju, Anakapalli, Parvathipuram Manyam, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam Heavy Rain Extreme India 18:41

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm836
Wildfire453
Heavy Rain319
Extreme Weather310
Flood239
Heatwave99
Storm Surge97
Cold Wave64
Earthquake61
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon10
Landslide5

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States545
China213
India192
Algeria191
Indonesia121
Spain85
Argentina80
Kazakhstan58
Saudi Arabia48
Zambia45

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.