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 Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
Severity 3 · India · Mathura, Uttar Pradesh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Coffs Harbour, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Coffs Harbour · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Syracuse, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Syracuse · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Walsall, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Walsall · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 4 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Michurinsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Michurinsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Balkh, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Balkh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dudley, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dudley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Corby, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Corby · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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- Conflict
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Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · 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.