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 Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Herat, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Herat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Beaumont, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Beaumont · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Port Arthur, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Port Arthur · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Barranquilla, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jharsuguda, India
Severity 3 · India · Jharsuguda · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Parvathipuram, India
Severity 3 · India · Parvathipuram · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Eden Prairie, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Eden Prairie · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Severity 3 · Puerto Rico · Ponce · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bucheon, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Bucheon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gwangju, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Gwangju · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gandhinagar, India
Severity 3 · India · Gandhinagar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Reading, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Reading · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Greenland
Severity 3 · Greenland · 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.