Daily report

Natural disasters on 15 October 2026

On 15 October 2026, this site recorded 2,795 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 1,058 were severe storm events. That is about the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,587). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.6.

2,795Events recorded
34 Extreme
541 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Tornado Warning issued October 15 at 7:41PM EDT until October 15 at 8:15PM EDT by NWS Indianapolis IN, United States of America Tornado Extreme United States 23:41
Tornado Warning issued October 15 at 7:15PM EDT until October 15 at 7:45PM EDT by NWS Indianapolis IN, United States of America Tornado Extreme United States 23:15
Tornado Warning issued October 15 at 7:07PM EDT until October 15 at 7:45PM EDT by NWS Indianapolis IN, United States of America Tornado Extreme United States 23:07
RCMP ALERT: DANGEROUS PERSON with GUN in RED EARTH CREE NATION, Canada Extreme Weather Extreme Canada 21:37
LLUVIAS Y TORMENTAS ELÉCTRICAS — Interior de Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Manabí, norte de Los Ríos y Guayas, Ecuador Heavy Rain Extreme Ecuador 17:24
Forestfire — Ulytau district (Ulytau oblysy), Kazakhstan Wildfire Extreme Kazakhstan 13:37
Forestfire — Zhanaarka district (Ulytau oblysy), Kazakhstan Wildfire Extreme Kazakhstan 13:37
Forestfire — Shet district (Karaganda Region), Kazakhstan Wildfire Extreme Kazakhstan 13:37
Thundering with Thunderstorm, Gusty winds, Hailstorm, and Lightning is very likely to occur at isolated places over Barnala, Bathinda, Mansa, Sangrur in next 3 hours., India Severe Storm Extreme India 11:16
Forestfire — Shalkar district (Aktobe Region), Kazakhstan Wildfire Extreme Kazakhstan 10:17
Forestfire — Oiyl district (Aktobe Region), Kazakhstan Wildfire Extreme Kazakhstan 10:17
Forestfire — Mugalzhar district (Aktobe Region), Kazakhstan Wildfire Extreme Kazakhstan 10:17

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm1,058
Extreme Weather621
Wildfire506
Heavy Rain239
Flood159
Cold Wave90
Earthquake72
Storm Surge29
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon8
Tornado6
Heatwave5
Landslide1
Volcanic Activity1

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States708
China228
Spain213
Poland169
Kazakhstan155
Finland136
India125
Indonesia100
Norway90
Algeria83

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.