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 Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lawrence, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lawrence · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Waitakere, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Waitakere · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Joao de Meriti · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Temple, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Temple · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nashville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bellingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bellingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · 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.