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 Baytown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baytown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Malanville, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Malanville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Makhachkala, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Makhachkala · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bern, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Bern · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Arnhem, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Arnhem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Makhachkala, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Makhachkala · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Passaic, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Passaic · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Weston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Weston · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Barrancabermeja · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Nizhnekamsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Nizhnekamsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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- Conflict
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Military force used in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Joao de Meriti · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert
Severity 4 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Joao de Meriti · 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.