Risk events in South America, January 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.
274 events were recorded: 274 conflict events.
274 eventsSources: ucdp
274 events· South America
Conflict
- Colombia: 232
- Brazil: 31
- Argentina: 8
- Venezuela: 3
- Peru: 0
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 274
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-02 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-03 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-04 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-05 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-07 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-08 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-09 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-11 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-12 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-14 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-15 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-16 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-18 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-21 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-22 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-23 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-24 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-25 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-26 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-28 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-30 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Events
What is happening now
274 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Venezuela
1 fatality · Venezuela · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Villavicencio, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Porto Velho, Brazil
2 fatalities · Brazil · Porto Velho · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
4 fatalities · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Valledupar, Colombia
5 fatalities · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Brazil
1 fatality · Brazil · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Brazil
1 fatality · Brazil · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Buenaventura, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Buenaventura · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Chiquinquirá, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Chiquinquirá · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Valledupar, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Villavicencio, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barranquilla, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Valledupar, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Villavicencio, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Valledupar, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Villavicencio, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Villavicencio, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Villavicencio · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Brazil
1 fatality · Brazil · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
1 fatality · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- 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.