Between 31 August – 7 September 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 7,270 incidents worldwide across 151 countries. Of these, 428 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was up 103% on the previous week.
Every figure below is generated directly from our live database and links to the individual incident records. Counts reflect detected events, not casualties or damage.
What happened most
- Earthquake — 1,232 recorded
- Storm — 1,208 recorded
- Fire — 1,014 recorded
- Flood — 874 recorded
- Epidemic — 692 recorded
- Road Accident — 481 recorded
- Explosion — 461 recorded
- Wildfire — 249 recorded
Earthquakes led the week with 1,232 records. Magnitude describes released energy on a logarithmic scale, so a magnitude 6 releases roughly 32 times more energy than a magnitude 5. Shallow earthquakes are usually far more destructive than deep ones of the same magnitude, and building quality is typically the single largest factor in how many people are hurt.
Most affected countries
- United States — 470 incidents
- Indonesia — 308 incidents
- Nepal — 287 incidents
- Mexico — 233 incidents
- Latvia — 198 incidents
- India — 174 incidents
- Brazil — 142 incidents
- Bolivia — 125 incidents
High counts often reflect a combination of genuine hazard exposure, population density and strong local media coverage — countries with active reporting surface more small incidents than countries where local news is sparse.
Notable incidents this week
Tornado Warning — Brevard, FL
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Sat 5 Sep 2026 21:47 UTC. Read the full record →
Red Wind warning — Central coastal zone
Extreme · Storm · Poland · Sat 5 Sep 2026 22:00 UTC. Read the full record →
Red Wind warning — Western coastal zone
Extreme · Storm · Poland · Sat 5 Sep 2026 22:00 UTC. Read the full record →
Red Thunderstorm warning — Central coastal zone
Extreme · Storm · Poland · Sat 5 Sep 2026 10:30 UTC. Read the full record →
Red Thunderstorm warning — Western coastal zone
Extreme · Storm · Poland · Sat 5 Sep 2026 10:00 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.3 Earthquake — Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, United States [Sea: United States]
Extreme · Earthquake · Italy · Thu 3 Sep 2026 11:17 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.1 Earthquake — South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. [Sea]
Extreme · Earthquake · Italy · Wed 2 Sep 2026 23:46 UTC. Read the full record →
Red High-temperature Warning — Sicilia
Extreme · Heat Wave · Italy · Mon 31 Aug 2026 12:00 UTC. Read the full record →
How this report is produced
This recap is generated automatically each week from the incidents recorded by our monitoring — twenty-four-three-one data streams including the USGS and EMSC seismic networks, GDACS (UN), NASA EONET and FIRMS satellite observations, WHO outbreak bulletins, the US National Weather Service, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, GDELT news monitoring, and our own rotating per-country sweep of local-language media. Duplicate reports of the same event from different sources are merged into a single record.
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