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 · usgs
58080 events· the world
UnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 2 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 48 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
58080 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oman
Severity 3 · Oman · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Mali
Severity 3 · Mali · Source: gdelt
- 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 Reading, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Reading · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Seattle, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Seattle · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Tunbridge Wells · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Erbil (Irbil), Iraq
Severity 3 · Iraq · Erbil (Irbil) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Severity 3 · Cuba · Santiago de Cuba · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tilburg, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Tilburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 63 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Bajawa, Nusa Tenggara Timur · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 65 km N 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.