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
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Sudan
Severity 4 · Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nelson, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Nelson · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bucheon, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Bucheon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Watsonville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Watsonville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tampa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tampa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Lincoln, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lincoln · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Antonio, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Antonio · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sacramento, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sacramento · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- 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.