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 · usgs
58079 events· the world
UnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 13 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 37 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
58079 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Amherst, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Amherst · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 4 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 4 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Middlesbrough · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Novorossiysk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Novorossiysk · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Middlesbrough · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 80 km N of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Ruteng · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 19 km NE of Colonia, Micronesia
M5.4 · Micronesia · Yap · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.6 — Volcano Islands, Japan region
M5.6 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.7 — 128 km NNE of Palu, Indonesia
M5.7 · Indonesia · Palu · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 76 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
M5.1 · Indonesia · Bajawa, Nusa Tenggara Timur · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.3 — 47 km S of Angoram, Papua New Guinea
M5.3 · Papua New Guinea · Angoram · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M6.9 — 9 km WNW of Pematangsiantar, Indonesia
M6.9 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 40 km NNW of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Ruteng · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 71 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.1 · Indonesia · Ruteng · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 71 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
M5.1 · Indonesia · Bajawa, Nusa Tenggara Timur · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 62 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Bajawa, Nusa Tenggara Timur · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Bajawa, Nusa Tenggara Timur · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 76 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.1 · Indonesia · Ruteng · Source: usgs
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.