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: 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
58079 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bumba · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bunia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bismarck, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bismarck · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Mbombela, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Mbombela · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Biratnagar, Nepal
Severity 3 · Nepal · Biratnagar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nagapattinam, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Nagapattinam · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Geneva, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Geneva · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anakapalle, India
Severity 3 · India · Anakapalle · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in San José de Las Lajas, Mayabeque, Cuba
Severity 3 · Cuba · San José de Las Lajas, Mayabeque · 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.