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
Demonstration in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bakixanov (Bakikhanov), Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Conway, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Conway · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Middletown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Middletown · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in St Louis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · St Louis · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Waldorf, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waldorf · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · 's-Hertogenbosch · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · 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.