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
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kimberley, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Kimberley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manzini, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Manzini · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Evaton, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Evaton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Singkawang, Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Singkawang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Orlando, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orlando · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 4 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 4 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Gangneung, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Gangneung · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
Severity 3 · Italy · Sesto San Giovanni · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novotroitsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novotroitsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novomoskovsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Novomoskovsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- 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.