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
- 4 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 2,209
- 43 in the list
- Unrest
- 69
- 3 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
2415 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in La Mesa
Severity 3 · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 116 km E of Hihifo, Tonga
M5.4 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 96 km E of Yamada, Japan
M5.0 · Kesennuma · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 41 km NW of Barishal, Pakistan
M5.0 · Pakistan · Gilgit · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 48 km NNW of Barishal, Pakistan
M5.0 · Pakistan · Gilgit · Source: usgs
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Seropédica, Brazil
1 fatality · Brazil · Seropédica · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Burkina Faso
2 fatalities · Burkina Faso · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
1 fatality · Burkina Faso · Ouagadougou · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Central African Republic
4 fatalities · Central African Republic · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Colombia
6 fatalities · Colombia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Debre Mark’os, Ethiopia
1 fatality · Ethiopia · Debre Mark’os · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Debre Mark’os, Ethiopia
1 fatality · Ethiopia · Debre Mark’os · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mali
7 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
2 fatalities · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in South Africa
1 fatality · South Africa · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in South Sudan
24 fatalities · South Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Ad-Damazin, Ethiopia
94 fatalities · Ethiopia · Ad-Damazin · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
8 fatalities · Ukraine · Zaporizhzhya · 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.