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
- 5 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,239
- 45 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 — 38 km WNW of Malango, Solomon Islands
M5.1 · Honiara · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M6.4 — 53 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu
M6.4 · Vanuatu · Source: usgs
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Dhaka, Bangladesh
1 fatality · Bangladesh · Dhaka · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Burkina Faso
34 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Burkina Faso
74 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso
52 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Fada N'gourma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dapaong, Burkina Faso
13 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Dapaong · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Koudougou, Burkina Faso
9 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Koudougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barrancabermeja · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Valledupar, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Valledupar, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Dos Quebradas, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Dos Quebradas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
3 fatalities · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2 fatalities · Ethiopia · Addis Ababa · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Mali
2 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mozambique
1 fatality · Mozambique · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Birnin Kebbi, Niger
4 fatalities · Niger · Birnin Kebbi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Ad-Damazin, Sudan
2 fatalities · Sudan · Ad-Damazin · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Kryvyi Rih · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Yemen
1 fatality · Yemen · Source: ucdp
- Earthquake
M5.6 — 277 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia
M5.6 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.5 — 79 km NE of Khuzdar, Pakistan
M5.5 · Pakistan · Larkana · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 85 km NE of Hihifo, Tonga
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Chad
1 fatality · Chad · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Democratic Republic of the Congo
1 fatality · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1 fatality · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bunia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Iran
1 fatality · Iran · Source: ucdp
- 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.