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.
58079 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
58079 eventsSources: gdelt
58079 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
58079 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Surprise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Surprise · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Puerto Penasco, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Puerto Penasco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tucson, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tucson · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in China
Severity 3 · China · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bern, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Bern · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Astana (Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan
Severity 3 · Kazakhstan · Astana (Nur-Sultan) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Rajshahi · 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.