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
Nuclear alert in Târgu Mureş, Romania
Severity 4 · Romania · Târgu Mureş · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indio, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sarasota, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sarasota · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yevlax, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Yevlax · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Independence, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Independence · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · 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 United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
Severity 3 · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Qal‘at Bīshah, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Qal‘at Bīshah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Austin, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Austin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sfântu Gheorghe, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Sfântu Gheorghe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lake Charles, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lake Charles · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dothan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dothan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hamhung, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Hamhung · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Independence, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Independence · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sparks, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sparks · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Madīnat an Naşr, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Madīnat an Naşr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Conway, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Conway · 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.