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 · usgs
58080 events· the world
UnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 3 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 47 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
58080 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Severity 3 · Ethiopia · Addis Ababa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 3 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in New Haven, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New Haven · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Walnut Creek, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Walnut Creek · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chichawatni, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Chichawatni · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Eslamabad-e Gharb, Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Eslamabad-e Gharb · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Burlington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Burlington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Severity 3 · China · Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 79 km ESE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
M5.0 · Papua New Guinea · Namatanai · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 41 km E of Tobelo, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Tobelo, Maluku Utara · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 103 km WNW of Kerema, Papua New Guinea
M5.0 · Papua New Guinea · Kerema · Source: usgs
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.