Natural disasters under way

Earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above

Over the past thirty days. Magnitude is logarithmic: one degree more means thirty-one times more energy released. Depth matters just as much, a shallow tremor doing more surface damage than a deep one of the same magnitude.

Times in universal time. Feed generated by the USGS on 02 Oct 2026, 07:00 UTC. The most recent magnitudes are automatic and will be revised by an analyst in the following hours.

Open natural events

Wildfires, volcanoes, storms and drifting ice, observed from orbit and still open over the past thirty days. An event stays open until NASA records its end, and its position is that of its latest reading.

Titles and magnitude units are those of the source.

Open humanitarian alerts

The European Commission's global disaster alert and coordination system rates each event green, orange or red according to the expected impact on populations, not the intensity of the phenomenon. A powerful earthquake in a desert area stays green; a moderate flood over a dense region can be red.

All red and orange alerts under way, then the 40 most recently updated green alerts out of 165 open. Titles are those of the source. Feed published on 02 Oct 2026, 06:55 UTC.

Sources and method