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
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Al-Ubayyid · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Londonderry, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Londonderry · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ahmednagar, India
Severity 3 · India · Ahmednagar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Los Polvorines, Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Los Polvorines · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anseong-si, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Anseong-si · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Moulvibazar, India
Severity 3 · India · Moulvibazar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bunia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Bumba · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 3 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Suphan Buri, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Suphan Buri · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · 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.