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
Military force used in Allentown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Allentown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in The Woodlands, United States
Severity 3 · United States · The Woodlands · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Madaripur, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Madaripur · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Orem, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Aylesbury, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Aylesbury · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Novorossiysk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novorossiysk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Arcadia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Arcadia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Burnsville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Burnsville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lowell, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lowell · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in York, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · York · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Exeter, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Exeter · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin), Palestine
Severity 3 · Palestine · Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hod Hasharon, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Hod Hasharon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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.