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
- 12 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,528
- 38 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 Dédougou, Burkina Faso
1 fatality · Burkina Faso · Dédougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in General Santos, Philippines
1 fatality · Philippines · General Santos · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Somalia
1 fatality · Somalia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Ath Thawrah, Syria
1 fatality · Syria · Ath Thawrah · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
5 fatalities · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kherson
1 fatality · Kherson · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Zaporizhzhya · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
4 fatalities · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Kostyantynivka · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kramatorsk, Ukraine
6 fatalities · Ukraine · Kramatorsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine
3 fatalities · Ukraine · Sievierodonetsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Buenaventura, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Buenaventura · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Chiquinquirá, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Chiquinquirá · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2 fatalities · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Butembo · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1 fatality · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bunia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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One-sided violence in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
2 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Bobo-Dioulasso · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Mexico
2 fatalities · Mexico · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Earthquake
M5.2 — Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.6 — 46 km SSW of Mendi, Papua New Guinea
M5.6 · France · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 147 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia
M5.0 · Russia · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 59 km SSE of ‘Ohonua, Tonga
M5.1 · France · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.5 — Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
M5.5 · France · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 65 km SSE of ‘Ohonua, Tonga
M5.2 · France · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 188 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
M5.1 · Russia · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — west of Macquarie Island
M5.1 · Australia · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.5 — 8 km SE of Dianga, China
M5.5 · China · Linxia Chengguanzhen · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.7 — west of Macquarie Island
M5.7 · Australia · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 168 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
M5.0 · Russia · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 59 km S of ‘Ohonua, Tonga
M5.4 · France · Source: usgs
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.