Risk events in South America, July 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.
1288 events were recorded: 6 earthquakes, 1114 conflict events, and 168 unrest events.
1288 eventsSources: usgs · ucdp · gdelt
1288 events· South America
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- Colombia: 487
- Venezuela: 273
- Brazil: 184
- Chile: 97
- Peru: 86
- Earthquake
- 6
- 1 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,114
- 45 in the list
- Unrest
- 168
- 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 1170 |
| 2026-07-02 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1022 |
| 2026-07-03 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 791 |
| 2026-07-04 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 1039 |
| 2026-07-05 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 783 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 11 | 0 | 1776 |
| 2026-07-07 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 3109 |
| 2026-07-08 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 3811 |
| 2026-07-09 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 3089 |
| 2026-07-10 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 991 |
| 2026-07-11 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-12 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 1 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-15 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-16 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-17 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 7 | 0 | 5860 |
| 2026-07-18 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 4638 |
| 2026-07-19 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 2985 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 2499 |
| 2026-07-21 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 2958 |
| 2026-07-22 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 12 | 0 | 2717 |
| 2026-07-23 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 2044 |
| 2026-07-24 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 5 | 0 | 2629 |
| 2026-07-25 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 2839 |
| 2026-07-26 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 2438 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 3 | 0 | 3022 |
| 2026-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 4625 |
| 2026-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 8 | 0 | 1273 |
| 2026-07-30 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 4109 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 5098 |
Events
What is happening now
1288 events · newest first
- Earthquake
M5.6 — 15 km ENE of San Fernando, Peru
M5.6 · Peru · Huánuco · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Buenaventura, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Buenaventura · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Military force used in Barranquilla, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Vicente Pires, Brazil
Severity 4 · Brazil · Vicente Pires · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Vicente Pires, Brazil
Severity 4 · Brazil · Vicente Pires · Source: gdelt
- 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 Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · 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 Caldas Novas, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Caldas Novas · 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 Cochabamba, Bolivia
Severity 3 · Bolivia · Cochabamba · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
2 fatalities · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Agustín Codazzi, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Agustín Codazzi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Floridablanca, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Floridablanca · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Dos Quebradas, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Dos Quebradas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Dos Quebradas, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Dos Quebradas · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sao Caetano do Sul, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Caetano do Sul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in La Libertad, Ecuador
Severity 3 · Ecuador · La Libertad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Joao de Meriti · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Severity 3 · Bolivia · Cochabamba · 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.