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
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- Unrest
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Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Canton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Canton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Littlehampton
Severity 4 · Littlehampton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Brighton, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Brighton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu
Severity 3 · Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pekalongan, Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pekalongan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pudukkottai, India
Severity 3 · India · Pudukkottai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 4 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
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Strike in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Les Abymes, Antigua And Barbuda
Severity 3 · Antigua And Barbuda · Les Abymes · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · 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.