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 Waterford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nampa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nampa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Orlando, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orlando · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Bila Tserkva · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Madaripur, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Madaripur · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Saint John, New Brunswick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
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Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Utica, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Utica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mansfield, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Mansfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Eastleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · 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.