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.
58079 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58079 eventsSources: gdelt
58079 events· the world
Unrest
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- 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
58079 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Madang, Papua New Guinea
Severity 3 · Papua New Guinea · Madang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Savannah, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Savannah · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Savannah, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Savannah · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Lodja · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in China
Severity 3 · China · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Luton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Luton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin), Palestine
Severity 3 · Palestine · Rosh Ha'ayin (Rosh HaAyin) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ikeja
Severity 3 · Ikeja · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- 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.