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
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- Conflict
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Military force used in Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Burlington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Burlington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 4 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert
Severity 4 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Idaho Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Idaho Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago
Severity 3 · Trinidad And Tobago · Port of Spain · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rockville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Rockville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sherbrooke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sherbrooke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Smith, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Smith · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Smith, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Smith · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Edmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Edmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Denton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Denton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Guyana
Severity 4 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bakixanov (Bakikhanov), Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yangsan, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Yangsan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Avondale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Avondale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · 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.