Risk events in the world, February 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.
1357 events were recorded: 110 earthquakes, 2 disaster alerts, 1239 conflict events, and 6 unrest events.
1357 eventsSources: ucdp · gdelt · usgs
1357 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- Colombia: 137
- Ukraine: 135
- Mexico: 120
- Nigeria: 111
- Pakistan: 72
- Earthquake
- 110
- 2 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,239
- 47 in the list
- Unrest
- 6
- 1 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1357 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Chula Vista, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Chula Vista · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
34 fatalities · Nigeria · Birnin Kebbi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
2 fatalities · Pakistan · Dera Ismail Khan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in East London, South Africa
1 fatality · South Africa · East London · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Jableh (Jablah), Syria
1 fatality · Syria · Jableh (Jablah) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Unrest
Demonstration in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 101 km S of Kawalu, Indonesia
M5.0 · Tasikmalaya · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.5 — South Sandwich Islands region
M5.5 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Dos Quebradas, Colombia
3 fatalities · Colombia · Dos Quebradas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barranquilla, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Ethiopia
3 fatalities · Ethiopia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Lazaro Cardenas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Malanville, Niger
13 fatalities · Niger · Malanville · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Niger
1 fatality · Niger · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Jableh (Jablah), Syria
1 fatality · Syria · Jableh (Jablah) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Zaporizhzhya · Source: ucdp
- 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.