Daily report

Natural disasters on 1 October 2026

On 1 October 2026, this site recorded 3,205 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 1,013 were severe storm events. That is 16% above the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,761). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.3 in Japan.

3,205Events recorded
93 Extreme
931 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Rainstorm red warning issued by Heshan Meteorological Station [Level I/extremely serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 22:51
Chaonan Meteorological Station issues rainstorm red warning [Level I/especially serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 22:45
Jieyang Meteorological Station issued rainstorm red warning [Level I/especially serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 22:08
Chaoyang Meteorological Station issues red rainstorm warning [Level I/extremely serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 22:08
The weather station of Huilai County issued a red rainstorm warning [Level I/extremely serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 21:59
The meteorological observatory of Nansha District issued a red warning for rainstorm [Level I/especially serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 21:58
The meteorological observatory of Shunde District issued a red rainstorm warning [Level I/extremely serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 21:58
Panyu Meteorological Station issued a red warning for rainstorm [Level I/extremely serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 21:40
Chaonan Meteorological Station issues rainstorm red warning [Level I/especially serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 21:30
Dongguan Meteorological Station issued a red warning for rainstorm [Level I/extremely serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 21:15
Thunderstorm at Sea Warning for inshore areas of north coast, offshore Morant Bank area issued October 2 at 6:00 PM UTC until October 3 at 12:00 AM UTC, Jamaica Severe Storm Extreme Jamaica 20:54
LLUVIAS Y TORMENTAS ELÉCTRICAS — Suroeste de Azuay, Este de El Oro, Ecuador Heavy Rain Extreme Ecuador 19:39

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm1,013
Heavy Rain770
Flood568
Extreme Weather362
Wildfire349
Earthquake62
Storm Surge27
Cold Wave17
Tornado13
Heatwave9
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon9
Landslide6

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States770
China576
Spain550
Algeria145
Indonesia118
Kazakhstan117
India108
Argentina66
Germany62
Greece60

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.