Risk events in South America, April 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.
1080 events were recorded: 2 earthquakes, 940 conflict events, and 138 unrest events.
1080 eventsSources: gdelt
1080 events· South America
Conflict
- Venezuela: 260
- Colombia: 240
- Brazil: 181
- Argentina: 125
- Peru: 88
- Earthquake
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 940
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 138
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-02 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-03 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-04 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1794 |
| 2026-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 644 |
| 2026-04-06 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 329 |
| 2026-04-07 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 312 |
| 2026-04-08 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 10 | 0 | 482 |
| 2026-04-09 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 680 |
| 2026-04-10 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 2410 |
| 2026-04-11 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 1158 |
| 2026-04-12 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 969 |
| 2026-04-13 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 1675 |
| 2026-04-14 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 885 |
| 2026-04-15 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 8 | 0 | 557 |
| 2026-04-16 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 7 | 0 | 394 |
| 2026-04-17 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 202 |
| 2026-04-18 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 431 |
| 2026-04-19 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 443 |
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 6 | 0 | 353 |
| 2026-04-21 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 1204 |
| 2026-04-22 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 528 |
| 2026-04-23 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 566 |
| 2026-04-24 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 5 | 0 | 599 |
| 2026-04-25 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 450 |
| 2026-04-26 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 394 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 289 |
| 2026-04-28 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-29 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Events
What is happening now
1080 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Joao de Meriti · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rio Branco, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Rio Branco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Serra Talhada, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Serra Talhada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Cachoeiro de Itapemirim · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Marta, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Santa Marta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · 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.