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
Demonstration in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Saint Petersburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 4 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yevlax, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Yevlax · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chhindwara, India
Severity 3 · India · Chhindwara · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Mecca · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Namibia
Severity 3 · Namibia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Colombo
Severity 3 · Colombo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Severity 3 · Bulgaria · Veliko Tarnovo · 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.