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 Decatur, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Decatur · Source: gdelt
- 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
Martial law in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Podgorica, Montenegro
Severity 3 · Montenegro · Podgorica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Littlehampton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Littlehampton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Stevenage, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Stevenage · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Vicente, Costa Rica
Severity 3 · Costa Rica · San Vicente · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Chervonohrad, Poland
Severity 3 · Poland · Chervonohrad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Salinas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Salinas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint-Denis, France
Severity 3 · France · Saint-Denis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pensacola, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pensacola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Probolinggo, Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Probolinggo · Source: gdelt
- 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.