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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Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Daly City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Daly City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sana (Sanaa), Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Sana (Sanaa) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 4 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Al Mukalla, Yemen
Severity 4 · Yemen · Al Mukalla · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Panabo, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Panabo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Madīnat an Naşr, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Madīnat an Naşr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Najran, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Najran · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sabya, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Sabya · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Qal‘at Bīshah, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Qal‘at Bīshah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Daet, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Daet · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Saint Petersburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Utica, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Utica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fargo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fargo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Mukalla, Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Al Mukalla · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yanbu' Al Bahr, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Yanbu' Al Bahr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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.