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
- 6 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,239
- 44 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
M6.0 — 284 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia
M6.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 62 km SSE of Bengkulu, Indonesia
M5.0 · Bengkulu · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 7 km ENE of Yura, Peru
M5.0 · Peru · Arequipa · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
30 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Ouagadougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso
10 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Fada N'gourma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso
10 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Fada N'gourma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso
10 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Fada N'gourma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Central African Republic
1 fatality · Central African Republic · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Central African Republic
2 fatalities · Central African Republic · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in San Cristobal, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · San Cristobal · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Fort-de-france, Dominica
1 fatality · Dominica · Fort-de-france · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Mali
2 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sittwe
3 fatalities · Sittwe · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tanjay, Philippines
1 fatality · Philippines · Tanjay · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sudan
28 fatalities · Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sudan
1 fatality · Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sudan
24 fatalities · Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Earthquake
M5.0 — West Chile Rise
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 129 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines
M5.2 · Davao · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
M5.0 · 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.