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.
58080 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58080 eventsSources: gdelt
58080 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
58080 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Greenwood, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greenwood · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chilanga Township, Zambia
Severity 3 · Zambia · Chilanga Township · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Al-Ubayyid · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Ad-Damazin, Sudan
Severity 4 · Sudan · Ad-Damazin · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Sudan
Severity 4 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dartford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dartford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Cambridge, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Lelystad, Netherlands
Severity 4 · Netherlands · Lelystad · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tarnobrzeg, Poland
Severity 3 · Poland · Tarnobrzeg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Shrewsbury · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Evaton, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Evaton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · 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.