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 · ucdp
1080 events· South America
ConflictUnrest
- Venezuela: 260
- Colombia: 240
- Brazil: 181
- Argentina: 125
- Peru: 88
- Earthquake
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 940
- 42 in the list
- Unrest
- 138
- 8 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1080 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Nuclear alert in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 4 · 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
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Simões Filho, Brazil
1 fatality · Brazil · Simões Filho · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
2 fatalities · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: ucdp
- Unrest
Demonstration in Santa Marta, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Santa Marta · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Santa Marta, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Santa Marta · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Itabuna, Bahia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Conceição do Coité, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Conceição do Coité · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · 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
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.