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 Yanbu' Al Bahr, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Yanbu' Al Bahr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
Severity 3 · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · 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 Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Yekaterinburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lorain, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lorain · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Gulfport, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Gulfport · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Las Cruces, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Las Cruces · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Redlands, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Redlands · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Newton, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Newton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Rio Colorado · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Guildford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Guildford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yanbu' Al Bahr, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Yanbu' Al Bahr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Longview, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Longview · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anderson, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anderson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boston · 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.