Risk events in South America, May 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.
1158 events were recorded: 6 earthquakes, 922 conflict events, and 230 unrest events.
1158 eventsSources: gdelt
1158 events· South America
Unrest
- Venezuela: 298
- Colombia: 256
- Brazil: 196
- Chile: 88
- Argentina: 85
- Earthquake
- 6
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 922
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 230
- 8 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1158 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
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.