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
- 9 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 2,209
- 35 in the list
- Unrest
- 69
- 6 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
2415 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bandar Ganaveh, Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Bandar Ganaveh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Beit Shemesh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 67 km SSE of Shihezi, China
M5.2 · China · Shihezi · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.7 — 232 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaska
M5.7 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.3 — 66 km E of Tobelo, Indonesia
M5.3 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 147 km ENE of Masohi, Indonesia
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.3 — Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
M5.3 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M6.2 — 170 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands
M6.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — Mid-Indian Ridge
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 61 km SSW of Maisí, Cuba
M5.0 · Guantanamo · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 181 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
M5.1 · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Gardez, Afghanistan
1 fatality · Afghanistan · Gardez · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Gardez, Afghanistan
2 fatalities · Afghanistan · Gardez · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso
30 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Fada N'gourma · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Dos Quebradas, Colombia
5 fatalities · Colombia · Dos Quebradas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
3 fatalities · Colombia · San Juan de Pasto · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Valledupar, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Daule
1 fatality · Daule · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Ethiopia
4 fatalities · Ethiopia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Ghana
1 fatality · Ghana · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- 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.