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: 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
58080 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anseong-si, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Anseong-si · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orlando, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orlando · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Wollongong, Australia
Severity 4 · Australia · Wollongong · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 4 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 4 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ghana
Severity 3 · Ghana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anseong-si, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Anseong-si · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Davenport, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Davenport · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Goyang, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Goyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Napier, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Napier · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Albany, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albany · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Carson City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Carson City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Nuclear alert in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 4 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Néa Smýrni, Greece
Severity 3 · Greece · Néa Smýrni · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Rapid City, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Rapid City · 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.