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
- Conflict
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Nuclear alert in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 4 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Faisalabad, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Faisalabad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Biratnagar, Nepal
Severity 3 · Nepal · Biratnagar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Parachinar, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Parachinar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ismail Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, Lesotho
Severity 3 · Lesotho · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novorossiysk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novorossiysk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kimberley, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Kimberley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, Lesotho
Severity 3 · Lesotho · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Gelendzhik, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Gelendzhik · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Tyre (Sour), Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Tyre (Sour) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ismail Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kuwait City, Kuwait
Severity 3 · Kuwait · Kuwait City · 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.