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
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 4 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Midrand, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Midrand · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nashville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Anseong-si, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Anseong-si · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Conway, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Conway · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novotroitsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novotroitsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wollongong, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Wollongong · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in North Lakhimpur, China
Severity 3 · China · North Lakhimpur · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Dudley, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Dudley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Las Vegas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Las Vegas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Sukhumi (Sokhumi), Georgia
Severity 4 · Georgia · Sukhumi (Sokhumi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Koudougou, Burkina Faso
Severity 3 · Burkina Faso · Koudougou · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · 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.