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 · U.S. Department of State · usgs
59668 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 2 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 13 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 34 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 1 in the list
Events
What is happening now
59668 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fort Worth, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Worth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucerne, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Lucerne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tuscaloosa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tuscaloosa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Casper, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Casper · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Rapids, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Rapids · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Advisory
U.S. Department of State lowered its advisory for Bangladesh
Level 3 → 2 · Bangladesh · Source: U.S. Department of State
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 71 km ESE of Uchiza, Peru
M5.2 · Peru · Tingo María · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 42 km NNE of Suez, Egypt
M5.0 · Egypt · Suez · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Seattle, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Seattle · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kansas City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kansas City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Roanoke, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Spokane, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Spokane · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
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.