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
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Trenton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Trenton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in East Orange, United States
Severity 3 · United States · East Orange · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 4 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Isfahan (Esfahan), Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Isfahan (Esfahan) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jersey City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Jersey City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Sharjah · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Malappuram, India
Severity 3 · India · Malappuram · Source: gdelt
- 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.