Daily report

Natural disasters on 23 October 2026

On 23 October 2026, this site recorded 3,173 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 1,160 were severe storm events. That is 29% above the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,459). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.7 in Italy.

3,173Events recorded
76 Extreme
714 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Tornado Warning — Sierra, NM Tornado Extreme United States 23:58
Tornado Warning — Sierra, NM Tornado Extreme United States 23:36
Tornado Warning — Grant, NM; Luna, NM Tornado Extreme United States 22:12
Tornado Warning — Grant, NM; Luna, NM Tornado Extreme United States 21:46
Thunderstorm at Sea Warning for inshore areas of north coast, inshore areas of south coast, offshore Morant Bank area, offshore Pedro Bank area issued October 23 at 8:49 PM UTC until October 24 at 12: Severe Storm Extreme Jamaica 20:49
Blizzard Warning issued October 23 at 12:44PM AKDT until October 24 at 7:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 20:44
Blizzard Warning issued October 23 at 12:43PM AKDT until October 24 at 10:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 20:43
Blizzard Warning issued October 23 at 12:43PM AKDT until October 23 at 7:00PM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 20:43
Blizzard Warning issued October 23 at 12:43PM AKDT until October 24 at 4:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 20:43
Blizzard Warning issued October 23 at 12:43PM AKDT until October 24 at 1:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK, United States of America Cold Wave Extreme United States 20:43
Warning, Heavy rain — Bahah region - Hajrah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 19:04
Warning, Heavy rain — Bahah region - Al Bahah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 19:03

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm1,160
Extreme Weather622
Wildfire568
Flood289
Heavy Rain217
Cold Wave108
Storm Surge98
Earthquake67
Hurricane / Cyclone / Typhoon27
Tornado8
Heatwave8
Landslide1

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States682
Belgium260
Kazakhstan159
China147
Netherlands133
Croatia123
Indonesia115
France103
Argentina80
Finland76

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.