Risk events in the world, August 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.
59668 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
59668 eventsSources: gdelt
59668 events· the world
Conflict
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
59668 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Decatur, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Decatur · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oklahoma City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oklahoma City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pontiac, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pontiac · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Reno, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Reno · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Upland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Upland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Independence, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Independence · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Atlanta, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Atlanta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cary, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cary · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Conway, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Conway · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Palma Soriano, Cuba
Severity 4 · Cuba · Palma Soriano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Burlington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Burlington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gandhinagar, India
Severity 3 · India · Gandhinagar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Farrukhabad, India
Severity 3 · India · Farrukhabad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
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.