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 · usgs
58080 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 4 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 24 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 22 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
58080 events · newest first
- Unrest
Riot in Santa Clara, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Santa Clara · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Amstelveen, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Amstelveen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Trenton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Trenton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Almaty · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 205 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 201 km SSW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia
M5.2 · Indonesia · Pagar Alam · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — Galapagos Triple Junction region
M5.2 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 180 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia
M5.0 · Indonesia · Sabang · Source: usgs
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Victorville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Victorville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Troy, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Troy · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bismarck, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bismarck · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- 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.