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.
59668 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
59668 eventsSources: gdelt
59668 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
59668 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Clarksville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Clarksville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Madison, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Madison · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Yemen
Severity 3 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Milwaukee, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Milwaukee · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Greensboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greensboro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Plantation, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Plantation · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Santa Barbara, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Barbara · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Strasbourg, France
Severity 3 · France · Strasbourg · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 4 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Fe, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Fe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Coban (Cobán), Guatemala
Severity 4 · Guatemala · Coban (Cobán) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Albuquerque, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albuquerque · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
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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.