Risk events in Colombia, 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.
324 events were recorded: 2 earthquakes, 306 conflict events, and 16 unrest events.
324 eventsSources: gdelt · ucdp
324 events· Colombia
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 306
- 48 in the list
- Unrest
- 16
- 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-05-02 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-05-03 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-05 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-05-06 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 2026-05-07 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 98 |
| 2026-05-08 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| 2026-05-09 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 2026-05-10 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| 2026-05-12 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 2026-05-14 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 2026-05-15 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-05-16 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 2026-05-17 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| 2026-05-19 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-20 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-05-21 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-22 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-23 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 63 |
| 2026-05-24 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 2026-05-26 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| 2026-05-27 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-28 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-05-29 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| 2026-05-30 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-31 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Events
What is happening now
324 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 3 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 2 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 3 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military posture change in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 2 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in El Banco, Colombia
Severity 4 · El Banco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 4 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Envigado, Colombia
Severity 4 · Envigado · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Envigado, Colombia
Severity 3 · Envigado · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Cucuta, Colombia
Severity 2 · Cucuta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oranjestad, Colombia
Severity 3 · Oranjestad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 2 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Soacha, Colombia
Severity 3 · Soacha · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 3 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 2 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Soacha, Colombia
Severity 3 · Soacha · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 3 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Medellin, Colombia
Severity 3 · Medellin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Barranquilla, Colombia
Severity 3 · Barranquilla · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tumaco, Colombia
Severity 3 · Tumaco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Assault in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 2 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 2 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colombia
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Armenia, Colombia
Severity 3 · Armenia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 3 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 2 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 2 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 2 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Yopal, Colombia
Severity 2 · Yopal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Armenia, Colombia
Severity 3 · Armenia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Soledad, Colombia
1 fatality · Soledad · Source: ucdp
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.