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
- Conflict
Military force used in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gelendzhik, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Gelendzhik · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novorossiysk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novorossiysk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Tuguegarao, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Tuguegarao · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Vineland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Vineland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Sharjah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sana (Sanaa), Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Sana (Sanaa) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novorossiysk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novorossiysk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Nijmegen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Den Helder, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Den Helder · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in West Allis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · West Allis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · 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.