Daily report

Natural disasters on 22 October 2026

On 22 October 2026, this site recorded 2,933 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 1,326 were severe storm events. That is 16% above the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,519). The largest earthquake was magnitude 7 in China.

2,933Events recorded
57 Extreme
727 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
M7.0 Earthquake — 191 km ENE of Nagqu, China Earthquake Extreme China 14:33
Tornado Warning — Navajo, AZ Tornado Extreme United States 23:46
Tornado Warning — Grant, NM; Hidalgo, NM Tornado Extreme United States 22:54
Blizzard Warning issued October 22 at 2:51PM AKDT until October 24 at 7:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 22:51
Blizzard Warning issued October 22 at 2:38PM AKDT until October 24 at 10:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 22:38
Blizzard Warning issued October 22 at 2:38PM AKDT until October 24 at 1:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 22:38
Tornado Warning — Grant, NM; Hidalgo, NM Tornado Extreme United States 22:28
Lincheng County Meteorological Observatory issues a red warning for heavy fog [Level I/Extremely Severe], China Extreme Weather Extreme China 22:25
Blizzard Warning issued October 22 at 1:53PM AKDT until October 24 at 10:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 21:53
Blizzard Warning issued October 22 at 1:53PM AKDT until October 24 at 1:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 21:53
Tornado Warning — Cibola, NM; McKinley, NM; Sandoval, NM Tornado Extreme United States 21:13
Tornado Warning — Cibola, NM; McKinley, NM; Sandoval, NM Tornado Extreme United States 20:52

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm1,326
Wildfire572
Extreme Weather482
Heavy Rain149
Flood146
Cold Wave82
Earthquake76
Storm Surge66
Tornado21
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon6
Heatwave5
Landslide2

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States720
Kazakhstan176
Argentina162
Belgium144
China134
Croatia90
Netherlands81
Austria81
Indonesia80
Germany59

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.