Risk events in the world, August 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.
59668 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
59668 eventsSources: gdelt
59668 events· the world
Unrest
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 50 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
59668 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Moulvibazar, India
Severity 3 · India · Moulvibazar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Orlando, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Orlando · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Burton-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Burton-on-Trent · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Jezkazgan (Zhezkazgan) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tiruchirapalli (Trichy), India
Severity 3 · India · Tiruchirapalli (Trichy) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ramanathapuram, India
Severity 3 · India · Ramanathapuram · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chikkaballapur, India
Severity 3 · India · Chikkaballapur · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gandhinagar, India
Severity 3 · India · Gandhinagar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kovilpatti, India
Severity 3 · India · Kovilpatti · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tiruchirapalli (Trichy), India
Severity 3 · India · Tiruchirapalli (Trichy) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Liberia
Severity 3 · Liberia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · 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.