Daily report

Natural disasters on 18 October 2026

On 18 October 2026, this site recorded 2,280 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 910 were severe storm events. That is about the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,506). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.3 in Tonga.

2,280Events recorded
56 Extreme
335 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
The meteorological station of Lancang Lahu Autonomous County issued a red warning for rainstorm [Level I/especially serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 23:34
Heavy Rain Risk Area — Nakhon Sri Thammarat Pang Nga Surat Thani Ranong, Thailand Heavy Rain Extreme Thailand 22:43
Extreme rain warning — Interior de Mallorca Heavy Rain Extreme Spain 16:40
Extreme rain warning — Levante mallorquín Heavy Rain Extreme Spain 16:40
Extreme rain warning — Sur de Mallorca Heavy Rain Extreme Spain 16:40
Frente frío núm. 2 — CHIS, OAX, TAB, VER, Mexico Heavy Rain Extreme Mexico 12:30
Extreme rain warning — Litoral norte de Alicante Heavy Rain Extreme Spain 12:08
Extreme rain warning — Litoral sur de Valencia Heavy Rain Extreme Spain 12:08
Aviso de lluvias de nivel rojo. Litoral sur de Valencia, Spain Heavy Rain Extreme Spain 12:05
Wind — Aktogay district (Karaganda Region), Kazakhstan Severe Storm Extreme Kazakhstan 11:17
Wind — Osakarov district (Karaganda Region), Kazakhstan Severe Storm Extreme Kazakhstan 11:17
Wind — Karkaraly district (Karaganda Region), Kazakhstan Severe Storm Extreme Kazakhstan 11:17

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm910
Heavy Rain443
Wildfire384
Extreme Weather263
Storm Surge93
Cold Wave81
Earthquake58
Flood34
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon5
Volcanic Activity3
Heatwave3
Landslide3

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
Spain508
United States299
China122
Kazakhstan121
Indonesia117
Algeria106
Norway91
Finland88
India74
Italy73

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.