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
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Civil unrest in Bandar Ganaveh, Iran
Severity 4 · Iran · Bandar Ganaveh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nkhotakota, Malawi
Severity 3 · Malawi · Nkhotakota · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Benin City, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Benin City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Geneva, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Geneva · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 3 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Brighton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Brighton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 4 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · 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.