Risk events in the world, March 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.
2415 events were recorded: 136 earthquakes, 1 disaster alert, 2209 conflict events, and 69 unrest events.
2415 eventsSources: gdelt · usgs · ucdp
2415 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- Ukraine: 259
- United States: 251
- Lebanon: 199
- Mexico: 185
- Nigeria: 141
- Earthquake
- 136
- 6 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 2,209
- 43 in the list
- Unrest
- 69
- 1 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
2415 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 168 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
M5.0 · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 226 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaska
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 152 km W of Neiafu, Tonga
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 138 km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 135 km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M7.5 — 148 km W of Neiafu, Tonga
M7.5 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Shabqadar, Afghanistan
1 fatality · Afghanistan · Shabqadar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mardan, Afghanistan
1 fatality · Afghanistan · Mardan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Al Muharraq, Bahrain
1 fatality · Bahrain · Al Muharraq · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Dédougou, Burkina Faso
2 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Dédougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
15 fatalities · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bukavu · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Daule
1 fatality · Daule · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Piranshahr, Iraq
6 fatalities · Iraq · Piranshahr · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
1 fatality · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
2 fatalities · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
4 fatalities · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
1 fatality · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
2 fatalities · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Ciudad Cuauhtemoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Ciudad Cuauhtemoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Chula Vista, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Chula Vista · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria
11 fatalities · Nigeria · Birnin Kebbi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in South Africa
1 fatality · South Africa · Source: ucdp
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.