Hazard WatchStorms, floods and quakes near the chain
GDACS tracks natural hazards everywhere on earth. Most have nothing to do with Indian trade. These are ranked by how close each one falls to a port, a chokepoint or a supplier country India actually depends on, so a cyclone off Gujarat outranks a wildfire in the Northern Territory.
Current events
| Hazard | Where | Severity | Nearest point | Distance | Score | Alert |
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How an event gets scored
The two buttons above filter by location. The India view keeps anything within 1,500 km of a port, chokepoint or hub we track, or anywhere in a country India trades with heavily, whatever its severity. Most weeks that list is entirely green, and a green list is the answer you want.
Two things decide the number. GDACS sets an alert level of green, orange or red from its own impact modelling, which gives a base of 22, 58 or 92. That base is then multiplied by relevance: full weight within 250 km of an Indian port, a chokepoint or a major transhipment hub, tapering with distance, and floored by how much India trades with the country involved.
The effect is that proximity beats nationality. A cyclone sitting on the Strait of Hormuz counts fully whoever's waters it is in, while a red alert in a country India barely trades with stays low. The domain score on the wheel takes the worst event and lifts it slightly when several relevant hazards run at once.
This tells you a hazard is near something you depend on. It does not tell you a port has closed or a factory has stopped. Treat a high score as a prompt to ask your forwarder, not as confirmation of disruption.