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 Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gandhidham, India
Severity 3 · India · Gandhidham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Queretaro (Santiago de Querétaro), Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Queretaro (Santiago de Querétaro) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Colchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Colchester · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Braintree · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Londonderry, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Londonderry · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lawton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lawton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Edmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Edmond · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Brighton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Brighton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chapel Hill, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Chapel Hill · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Batangas, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Batangas · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Orenburg, Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Orenburg · 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.