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 Yanbu' Al Bahr, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Yanbu' Al Bahr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Heroica Guaymas, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Heroica Guaymas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mali
Severity 3 · Mali · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Muharraq, Bahrain
Severity 3 · Bahrain · Al Muharraq · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Smith, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Smith · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Mass violence in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 4 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Conway, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Conway · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Nijmegen · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Venlo, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Venlo · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Ras al-Khaimah, Oman
Severity 3 · Oman · Ras al-Khaimah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yanbu' Al Bahr, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Yanbu' Al Bahr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Gwangju, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Gwangju · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Knoxville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Knoxville · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
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Nuclear alert in Hanumangarh, India
Severity 4 · India · Hanumangarh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- 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.