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.
59667 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
59667 eventsSources: gdelt · ucdp
59667 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
59667 events · newest first
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Military force used in Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin), Palestine
Severity 3 · Palestine · Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Rapids, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Rapids · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sutton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Sutton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Yekaterinburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Leeds, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Leeds · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil
1 fatality · Brazil · Iranduba, Amazonas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Santa Marta, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Santa Marta · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Agustín Codazzi, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Agustín Codazzi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Floridablanca, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Floridablanca · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Mali
3 fatalities · Mali · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Non-state conflict in Kogi State, Nigeria
12 fatalities · Nigeria · Kogi State · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
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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.