Risk events in Oceania, 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.
1667 events were recorded: 13 earthquakes, 1416 conflict events, and 238 unrest events.
1667 eventsSources: gdelt · usgs
1667 events· Oceania
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- Australia: 1135
- Indonesia: 294
- New Zealand: 199
- Papua New Guinea: 19
- Fiji: 13
- Earthquake
- 13
- 1 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,416
- 41 in the list
- Unrest
- 238
- 8 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1667 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rotorua, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Rotorua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Waitakere, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Waitakere · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.5 — 62 km ENE of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.5 · Indonesia · Bajawa, Nusa Tenggara Timur · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wagga Wagga, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Wagga Wagga · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Papamoa Beach, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Papamoa Beach · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Coffs Harbour, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Coffs Harbour · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Australia
Severity 4 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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.