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 · usgs
1587 events· the world
ConflictEarthquake
- Colombia: 232
- Ukraine: 206
- Mexico: 185
- Nigeria: 159
- Palestine: 83
- Earthquake
- 58
- 21 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,528
- 29 in the list
- Unrest
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1587 events · newest first
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mali
2 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mali
1 fatality · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mali
5 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mali
6 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Yemen
2 fatalities · Yemen · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Chula Vista, Mexico
2 fatalities · Mexico · Chula Vista · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 30 km WSW of Sangay, Philippines
M5.0 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — Galapagos Triple Junction region
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 20 km WSW of Dompu, Indonesia
M5.1 · Indonesia · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — Pulau Pulau Tanimbar, Indonesia
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 39 km WSW of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.0 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — South Sandwich Islands region
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 107 km E of Noda, Japan
M5.1 · Morioka · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 194 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 15 km W of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.1 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.6 — 43 km W of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.6 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.3 — 47 km W of Sangay, Philippines
M5.3 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 32 km W of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.4 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 172 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 190 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 53 km W of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.0 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.9 — 27 km W of Sangay, Philippines
M5.9 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 30 km W of Sangay, Philippines
M5.1 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 15 km WNW of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.1 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — Ascension Island region
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — Ascension Island region
M5.4 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 20 km W of Bantogon, Philippines
M5.4 · General Santos · Source: usgs
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Taungdwingyi, Myanmar
1 fatality · Myanmar · Taungdwingyi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Léo, Burkina Faso
2 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Léo · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso
6 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Fada N'gourma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Makhachkala, Russia
2 fatalities · Russia · Makhachkala · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in South Sudan
6 fatalities · South Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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.