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 · usgs
58078 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 6 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 30 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 14 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
58078 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Liberia
Severity 3 · Liberia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Earthquake
M5.8 — 29 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.8 · Indonesia · Ruteng · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 33 km N of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.2 · Indonesia · Ruteng · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 216 km E of Levuka, Fiji
M5.4 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — 134 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia
M5.4 · Severo-Kuril'sk · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.5 — 45 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia
M5.5 · Ruteng · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 66 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
M5.2 · Ende · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harlingen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harlingen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Paradise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Paradise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Severity 3 · France · Clermont-Ferrand · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool
Severity 3 · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Erbil (Irbil), Iraq
Severity 3 · Iraq · Erbil (Irbil) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Sharjah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fresno, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fresno · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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.