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.
58080 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58080 eventsSources: gdelt
58080 events· the world
Conflict
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- 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
58080 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Tacloban, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Tacloban · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yevpatoria, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Yevpatoria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Youngstown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Youngstown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Rapids, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Rapids · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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- Conflict
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- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Paradise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Paradise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Geneva, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Geneva · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Botswana
Severity 3 · Botswana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Domodedovo, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Domodedovo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Junction, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Junction · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baguio, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Baguio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · 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.