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
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nevinnomyssk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Nevinnomyssk · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Londonderry, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Londonderry · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Botswana
Severity 3 · Botswana · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Daugavpils, Latvia
Severity 3 · Latvia · Daugavpils · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucerne, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Lucerne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Efon-Alaaye, Nigeria
Severity 3 · Nigeria · Efon-Alaaye · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Crawley, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Crawley · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lelystad, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Lelystad · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Liberia
Severity 3 · Liberia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Trenton, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Trenton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tiruchirapalli (Trichy), India
Severity 3 · India · Tiruchirapalli (Trichy) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Sao Joao de Meriti · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
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.