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.
58079 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58079 eventsSources: gdelt
58079 events· the world
Conflict
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- 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
58079 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bath, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bath · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Plymouth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Plymouth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kabul, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina
Severity 3 · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Sarajevo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · 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 Suphan Buri, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Suphan Buri · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Youngstown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Youngstown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grapevine, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grapevine · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bangor, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bangor · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Liverpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Liverpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Zamboanga, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Zamboanga · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tacloban, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Tacloban · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Winston-Salem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Winston-Salem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kozhikode (Calicut), India
Severity 3 · India · Kozhikode (Calicut) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 4 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · 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.