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 Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · 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 Pueblo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pueblo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wad Madani, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Wad Madani · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Samoa
Severity 3 · Samoa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Redwood City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Redwood City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in El Paso, United States
Severity 3 · United States · El Paso · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Sudan
Severity 3 · South Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Novokuybyshevsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novokuybyshevsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- 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 Edmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Edmond · Source: gdelt
- 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.