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: gdelt · ucdp
1357 events· the world
Conflict
- Colombia: 137
- Ukraine: 135
- Mexico: 120
- Nigeria: 111
- Pakistan: 72
- Earthquake
- 110
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,239
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 6
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1357 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Wollongong, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Wollongong · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Prijedor, Bosnia And Herzegovina
Severity 3 · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Prijedor · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Namibia
Severity 3 · Namibia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Berwyn, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Berwyn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cienfuegos, Cuba
Severity 3 · Cuba · Cienfuegos · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kokomo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kokomo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Geneva, Switzerland
Severity 4 · Switzerland · Geneva · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Meïganga, Central African Republic
1 fatality · Central African Republic · Meïganga · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
3 fatalities · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Goma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Debre Mark’os, Ethiopia
15 fatalities · Ethiopia · Debre Mark’os · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Hāgere Hiywet, Ethiopia
15 fatalities · Ethiopia · Hāgere Hiywet · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Hāgere Hiywet, Ethiopia
15 fatalities · Ethiopia · Hāgere Hiywet · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
6 fatalities · Nigeria · Birnin Kebbi · 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.