Risk events in New Zealand, 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.
240 events were recorded: 3 earthquakes, 208 conflict events, and 29 unrest events.
240 eventsSources: gdelt · usgs
240 events· New Zealand
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- Earthquake
- 3
- 1 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 208
- 45 in the list
- Unrest
- 29
- 4 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 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-02 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-04 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-05 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 25 |
| 2026-08-06 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 2026-08-07 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-08 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-09 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-08-15 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-08-18 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-19 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-20 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-08-21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-08-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-08-25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-08-26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-08-29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Events
What is happening now
240 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Hamilton, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Hamilton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hamilton, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Hamilton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Christchurch, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Christchurch · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Auckland, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Auckland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rotorua, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Rotorua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Auckland, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Auckland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Zealand
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Auckland, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Auckland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Papamoa Beach, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Papamoa Beach · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waitakere, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Waitakere · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Zealand
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Zealand
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rotorua, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Rotorua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Zealand
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 4 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Auckland, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Auckland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Auckland, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Auckland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Zealand
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 2 · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in New Zealand
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Earthquake
M4.6 — 43 km WNW of Turangi, New Zealand
M4.6 · Taumarunui · Source: usgs
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.