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.
59667 events were recorded: 187 earthquakes, 8 disaster alerts, 49642 conflict events, 8232 unrest events, and 9 advisory changes.
59667 eventsSources: gdelt
59667 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
59667 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
Severity 3 · Belgium · Woluwe-Saint-Lambert · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jackson, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Jackson · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Madīnat an Naşr, Egypt
Severity 3 · Egypt · Madīnat an Naşr · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Zabol, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Zabol · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Wagga Wagga, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Wagga Wagga · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Royal Leamington Spa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Santa Clara, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Clara · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Guyana
Severity 4 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 4 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto), Argentina
Severity 3 · Argentina · Rio Cuarto (Río Cuarto) · 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.