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 Victorias City, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Victorias City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ad Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Ad Dammam · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Spokane, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Spokane · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Winston-Salem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Winston-Salem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Jose, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Jose · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Greensboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greensboro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chapel Hill, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Chapel Hill · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Burlington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Burlington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in West New York, United States
Severity 3 · United States · West New York · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Rio Colorado · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Antioch, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Antioch · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bedford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bedford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waterloo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterloo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Greensboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greensboro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chapel Hill, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Chapel Hill · Source: gdelt
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.