Risk events in Europe, 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.
8232 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 7412 conflict events, and 819 unrest events.
8232 eventsSources: gdelt
8232 events· Europe
Conflict
- Ukraine: 2029
- United Kingdom: 1755
- Spain: 710
- France: 566
- Germany: 432
- Earthquake
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 7,412
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 819
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Signal
How the picture is moving
Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days
Events by type
Against the 90-day baseline
Events per day
| Date | Earthquake | Disaster | Conflict | Unrest | Advisory | Fire hotspots |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | 0 | 0 | 336 | 21 | 0 | 1927 |
| 2026-08-02 | 0 | 0 | 362 | 33 | 0 | 1760 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 422 | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-04 | 0 | 0 | 377 | 44 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-05 | 0 | 0 | 380 | 51 | 0 | 1856 |
| 2026-08-06 | 0 | 0 | 398 | 43 | 0 | 2118 |
| 2026-08-07 | 0 | 0 | 349 | 40 | 0 | 2346 |
| 2026-08-08 | 0 | 0 | 298 | 31 | 0 | 2298 |
| 2026-08-09 | 0 | 0 | 248 | 33 | 0 | 2211 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 350 | 62 | 0 | 2124 |
| 2026-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 335 | 41 | 0 | 2148 |
| 2026-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 344 | 50 | 0 | 2653 |
| 2026-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 398 | 39 | 0 | 3107 |
| 2026-08-14 | 1 | 0 | 478 | 42 | 0 | 3347 |
| 2026-08-15 | 0 | 0 | 294 | 22 | 0 | 3176 |
| 2026-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 445 | 28 | 0 | 2650 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 470 | 47 | 0 | 2558 |
| 2026-08-18 | 0 | 0 | 393 | 54 | 0 | 2729 |
| 2026-08-19 | 0 | 0 | 349 | 47 | 0 | 1399 |
| 2026-08-20 | 0 | 0 | 386 | 56 | 0 | 1473 |
| 2026-08-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2882 |
| 2026-08-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2789 |
| 2026-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2655 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2584 |
| 2026-08-25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2087 |
| 2026-08-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327 |
| 2026-08-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 636 |
| 2026-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 918 |
| 2026-08-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1808 |
Events
What is happening now
8232 events · newest first
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Brighton, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Brighton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rio de Mouro, Portugal
Severity 3 · Portugal · Rio de Mouro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Brighton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Brighton · Source: gdelt
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- Conflict
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Military force used in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lugano, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Lugano · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kettering, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Kettering · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Nottingham · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Gothenburg, Denmark
Severity 3 · Denmark · Gothenburg · 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.