Risk events in South America, June 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.
1384 events were recorded: 5 earthquakes, 1145 conflict events, and 234 unrest events.
1384 eventsSources: gdelt · usgs · ucdp
1384 events· South America
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- Colombia: 393
- Venezuela: 369
- Brazil: 224
- Bolivia: 81
- Peru: 78
- Earthquake
- 5
- 2 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,145
- 35 in the list
- Unrest
- 234
- 13 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1384 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela
Severity 4 · Venezuela · Puerto la Cruz · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M7.5 — 20 km ESE of Yumare, Venezuela
M7.5 · Venezuela · Moron · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M7.2 — 21 km ENE of San Felipe, Venezuela
M7.2 · Venezuela · Moron · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 4 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Puerto Madryn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chincha Alta, Peru
Severity 3 · Peru · Chincha Alta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Severity 3 · Bolivia · Cochabamba · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Valledupar, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Valledupar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in San Cristobal, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · San Cristobal · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Santa Marta, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Santa Marta · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 4 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- 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.