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 · usgs · gdacs
58079 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- United States: 16535
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Ukraine: 2029
- Nigeria: 1801
- Earthquake
- 187
- 4 in the list
- Disaster
- 8
- 1 in the list
- Conflict
- 49,642
- 31 in the list
- Unrest
- 8,232
- 14 in the list
- Advisory
- 9
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
58079 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Saint Petersburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Earthquake
M5.1 — central East Pacific Rise
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Disaster
Orange flood alert in China
Orange alert · Source: gdacs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 56 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia
M5.0 · Russia · Severo-Kuril'sk · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.1 — 3 km ESE of Xunchang, China
M5.1 · China · Yibin · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.3 — 7 km ENE of Mamburao, Philippines
M5.3 · Philippines · Mamburao · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in League City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · League City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Papua New Guinea
Severity 4 · Papua New Guinea · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Mecca · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert
Severity 4 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bend · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Miami, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Miami · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Errachidia, Morocco
Severity 3 · Morocco · Errachidia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sacramento, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sacramento · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Daytona, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Daytona · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ratchaburi, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Ratchaburi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · 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.