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
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Demonstration in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Barisal, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Barisal · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Severity 3 · Cuba · Santiago de Cuba · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Australia
Severity 4 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Colchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Colchester · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · 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.