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.
58078 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58078 eventsSources: gdelt
58078 events· the world
Unrest
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- 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
58078 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
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Demonstration in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Colombo
Severity 3 · Colombo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 3 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Blackpool
Severity 3 · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Biel/Bienne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in North Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · North Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Charleston
Severity 3 · Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Carlisle, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Carlisle · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Nizhnekamsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Nizhnekamsk · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Samsun
Severity 3 · Samsun · 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.