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 Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mount Vernon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mount Vernon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hamhung, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Hamhung · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kragujevac, Serbia
Severity 3 · Serbia · Kragujevac · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Barrancabermeja · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Akron, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Akron · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pontiac, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pontiac · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Antonio, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Antonio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Atlanta, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Atlanta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Melbourne, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Melbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pittsburgh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pittsburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Batangas, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Batangas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in New Bedford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New Bedford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in New Haven, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New Haven · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Farmington Hills, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Farmington Hills · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waterford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waterford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterford · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Tuscaloosa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tuscaloosa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · 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.