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 Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Swansea, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Swansea · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Amstelveen, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Amstelveen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Isfahan (Esfahan), Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Isfahan (Esfahan) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Albuquerque, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albuquerque · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Darlington, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Darlington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ongata Rongai, Kenya
Severity 3 · Kenya · Ongata Rongai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Savannah, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Savannah · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · 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.