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 Ad Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Ad Dammam · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pensacola, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pensacola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tulare, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tulare · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kota Bharu, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Kota Bharu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Balkh, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Balkh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Nakhon Ratchasima · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bais, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Bais · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Namibia
Severity 3 · Namibia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · 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 Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bethesda, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bethesda · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Levittown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Levittown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bridgeport, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bridgeport · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bristol, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bristol · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Braintree · 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.