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 Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Royal Leamington Spa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novomoskovsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Novomoskovsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yevpatoria, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Yevpatoria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pawtucket, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pawtucket · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bismarck, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bismarck · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 4 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lawrence, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lawrence · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Athens, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Athens · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Athens, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Athens · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Denver, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Denver · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Elgin, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Elgin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pensacola, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pensacola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Newton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Newton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Berkeley, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Berkeley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bangor, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bangor · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Junction, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Junction · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ad-Damazin, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Ad-Damazin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fiji
Severity 3 · Fiji · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Olathe, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Olathe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Barisal, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Barisal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Mecca · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- 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.