Daily report

Natural disasters on 6 October 2026

On 6 October 2026, this site recorded 2,520 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 905 were severe storm events. That is about the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,765). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.8.

2,520Events recorded
27 Extreme
325 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Hurricane Force Wind Warning issued October 6 at 3:09PM AKDT until October 8 at 5:00AM AKDT by NWS Anchorage AK, United States of America Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon Extreme United States 23:09
Hurricane Force Wind Warning issued October 6 at 3:08PM AKDT until October 8 at 5:00AM AKDT by NWS Anchorage AK, United States of America Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon Extreme United States 23:08
Hurricane Force Wind Warning issued October 6 at 3:08PM AKDT until October 7 at 5:00PM AKDT by NWS Anchorage AK, United States of America Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon Extreme United States 23:08
Warning, Heavy rain — Bahah region - Al Bahah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:43
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Maysan : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:40
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Adam : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:40
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Ardiyat : The entire, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:40
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Taif : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:40
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Al Namas : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:40
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Rijal Al Ma : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:40
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Al Harjah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:39
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Abha : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:39

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm905
Wildfire477
Extreme Weather438
Heavy Rain428
Flood98
Earthquake65
Cold Wave49
Storm Surge37
Heatwave12
Landslide7
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon4

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
Spain404
Finland161
Kazakhstan135
India129
Algeria128
Poland125
China102
United States100
Italy81
Indonesia69

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.