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.
58079 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58079 eventsSources: gdelt
58079 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
58079 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Pinar del Rio, Cuba
Severity 3 · Cuba · Pinar del Rio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mountain View, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mountain View · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Fe, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Fe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Albuquerque, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albuquerque · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yevlax, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Yevlax · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Severity 3 · China · Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 3 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Mountain View, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mountain View · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sioux City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sioux City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
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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.