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
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Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Middlesbrough · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Atlanta, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Atlanta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ghana
Severity 3 · Ghana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kuwait City, Kuwait
Severity 3 · Kuwait · Kuwait City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Chaguanas, Trinidad And Tobago
Severity 3 · Trinidad And Tobago · Chaguanas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kinshasa, Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Kinshasa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bumba · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mahasamund, India
Severity 3 · India · Mahasamund · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chaguanas, Trinidad And Tobago
Severity 3 · Trinidad And Tobago · Chaguanas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago
Severity 3 · Trinidad And Tobago · Port of Spain · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Krasnokamensk, China
Severity 3 · China · Krasnokamensk · 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.