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: usgs · ucdp
1357 events· the world
ConflictEarthquake
- Colombia: 137
- Ukraine: 135
- Mexico: 120
- Nigeria: 111
- Pakistan: 72
- Earthquake
- 110
- 10 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,239
- 40 in the list
- Unrest
- 6
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1357 events · newest first
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 115 km E of Tual, Indonesia
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M6.0 — 86 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia
M6.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 29 km NNW of Calama, Chile
M5.0 · Chile · Calama · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.7 — 114 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands
M5.7 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.5 — southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
M5.5 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.7 — South Sandwich Islands region
M5.7 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 97 km WNW of Pariaman, Indonesia
M5.0 · Bukittinggi · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — southern East Pacific Rise
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — south of the Fiji Islands
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dédougou, Burkina Faso
7 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Dédougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Burkina Faso
11 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Koudougou, Burkina Faso
12 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Koudougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Santiago (Cali), Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Santiago (Cali) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Buenaventura, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Buenaventura · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Buenaventura, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Buenaventura · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Debre Mark’os, Ethiopia
1 fatality · Ethiopia · Debre Mark’os · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin), Palestine
1 fatality · Palestine · Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
1 fatality · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
1 fatality · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
2 fatalities · Pakistan · Dera Ismail Khan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
6 fatalities · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
6 fatalities · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dayr Az Zawr, Syria
1 fatality · Syria · Dayr Az Zawr · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Earthquake
M5.3 — 106 km NNE of Hihifo, Tonga
M5.3 · 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.