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 Daly City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Daly City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisonburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisonburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mountain View, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mountain View · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Stockport, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Stockport · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 3 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Redwood City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Redwood City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Victorias City, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Victorias City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bandar Abbas, Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Bandar Abbas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Salinas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Salinas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sana (Sanaa), Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Sana (Sanaa) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Novomoskovsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Novomoskovsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hamhung, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Hamhung · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Nashville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Miami, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Miami · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Boca Raton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boca Raton · 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.