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
Strike in Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bend · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Lakeland, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dondo, Mozambique
Severity 3 · Mozambique · Dondo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sunnyvale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sunnyvale · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Itabira MG, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Itabira MG · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Antonio, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Antonio · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Yemen
Severity 4 · Yemen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Miami, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Miami · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Daly City, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Daly City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Weston-super-Mare · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Gelendzhik, Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Gelendzhik · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Lucerne, Switzerland
Severity 4 · Switzerland · Lucerne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gwangju, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Gwangju · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gongju, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Gongju · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
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.