Risk events in the world, January 2026
This page tracks significant risk events worldwide in near real time — earthquakes, disaster alerts, armed conflict, unrest and government travel-advisory changes — combining data from the USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, UCDP, GDELT, ACLED and official travel-advisory sources. Browse what is happening now, or open the monthly and yearly archive for any country.
1587 events were recorded: 58 earthquakes, 1 disaster alert, and 1528 conflict events.
1587 eventsSources: ucdp
1587 events· the world
Conflict
- Colombia: 232
- Ukraine: 206
- Mexico: 185
- Nigeria: 159
- Palestine: 83
- Earthquake
- 58
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,528
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1587 events · newest first
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One-sided violence in Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Source: ucdp
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One-sided violence in Santa Marta, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Santa Marta · Source: ucdp
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One-sided violence in Villavicencio, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
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One-sided violence in Mali
1 fatality · Mali · Source: ucdp
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Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
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Non-state conflict in Mexico
3 fatalities · Mexico · Source: ucdp
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Non-state conflict in Cuernavaca, Mexico
2 fatalities · Mexico · Cuernavaca · Source: ucdp
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State-based conflict in Burkina Faso
1 fatality · Burkina Faso · Source: ucdp
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State-based conflict in Mozambique
1 fatality · Mozambique · Source: ucdp
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State-based conflict in Taungdwingyi, Myanmar
3 fatalities · Myanmar · Taungdwingyi · Source: ucdp
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One-sided violence in Sudan
19 fatalities · Sudan · Source: ucdp
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Non-state conflict in Meïganga, Central African Republic
1 fatality · Central African Republic · Meïganga · Source: ucdp
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State-based conflict in Novomoskovsk, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Novomoskovsk · Source: ucdp
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Non-state conflict in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Barrancabermeja · Source: ucdp
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One-sided violence in El Carmen de Bolívar, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · El Carmen de Bolívar · Source: ucdp
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One-sided violence in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barrancabermeja · Source: ucdp
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Non-state conflict in Dominica
1 fatality · Dominica · Source: ucdp
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State-based conflict in Ethiopia
2 fatalities · Ethiopia · Source: ucdp
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Reference
What these risk types mean
- Earthquake
- Significant earthquakes (magnitude 4.5+) reported by the USGS.
- Disaster
- Active floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires reported by GDACS and NASA EONET.
- Conflict
- Armed conflict events above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from UCDP and GDELT.
- Unrest
- Unrest events — protests, strikes, riots — above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from GDELT and ACLED.
- Advisory
- Official government travel-advisory level changes for a country.