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 · usgs · gdacs
1357 events· the world
ConflictEarthquake
- Colombia: 137
- Ukraine: 135
- Mexico: 120
- Nigeria: 111
- Pakistan: 72
- Earthquake
- 110
- 5 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 1 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
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State-based conflict in Beledweyne, Somalia
2 fatalities · Somalia · Beledweyne · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Beledweyne, Somalia
7 fatalities · Somalia · Beledweyne · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Malakal, South Sudan
15 fatalities · South Sudan · Malakal · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kramatorsk, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Kramatorsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Kostyantynivka · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Lisichansk, Ukraine
2 fatalities · Ukraine · Lisichansk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Earthquake
M5.0 — off the coast of Central America
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — Prince Edward Islands region
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Central African Republic
1 fatality · Central African Republic · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Villavicencio, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Coacalco de Berriozabal, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Coacalco de Berriozabal · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Nyaunglebin, Myanmar
1 fatality · Myanmar · Nyaunglebin · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Birnin Kebbi, Niger
4 fatalities · Niger · Birnin Kebbi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Malanville, Nigeria
1 fatality · Nigeria · Malanville · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sudan
2 fatalities · Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Khmelnytskyi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Zaporizhzhya · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine
2 fatalities · Ukraine · Kostyantynivka · Source: ucdp
- Earthquake
M5.9 — Pulau Pulau Tanimbar, Indonesia
M5.9 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 92 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 31 km S of La Tirana, Chile
M5.0 · Chile · Iquique · Source: usgs
- Disaster
Red notification for tropical cyclone GEZANI-26. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 1.529 million .
Red alert · Source: gdacs
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.