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 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Puerto Cabello · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Aguascalientes · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nashville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Nakatsugawa, Japan
Severity 4 · Japan · Nakatsugawa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Coban (Cobán), Guatemala
Severity 3 · Guatemala · Coban (Cobán) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Eugene, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Eugene · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Yevpatoria, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Yevpatoria · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Warwick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Warwick · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Palasa-Kasibugga, India
Severity 3 · India · Palasa-Kasibugga · 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.