Risk events in the world, 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.
84548 events were recorded: 169 earthquakes, 3 disaster alerts, 72860 conflict events, and 11516 unrest events.
84548 eventsSources: gdelt
84548 events· the world
Unrest
- United States: 25598
- Iran: 5078
- India: 4160
- Israel: 3353
- Nigeria: 2942
- Earthquake
- 169
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 3
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 72,860
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 11,516
- 50 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
84548 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Alexandria, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Alexandria · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in South Sudan
Severity 4 · South Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Clarksville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Clarksville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · San Miguel de Tucuman · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in East London, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · East London · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Lucerne, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Lucerne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Parvathipuram, India
Severity 3 · India · Parvathipuram · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Nijmegen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Torbat-e Jām, Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Torbat-e Jām · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Al Muharraq, Bahrain
Severity 3 · Bahrain · Al Muharraq · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- 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.