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
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gueckedou, Sierra Leone
Severity 3 · Sierra Leone · Gueckedou · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bang Kruai, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Bang Kruai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Juan de Los Morros, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · San Juan de Los Morros · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yevlax, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Yevlax · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Lucerne, Switzerland
Severity 4 · Switzerland · Lucerne · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Winston-Salem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Winston-Salem · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tando Adam, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Tando Adam · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Suphan Buri, Thailand
Severity 3 · Thailand · Suphan Buri · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anakapalle, India
Severity 3 · India · Anakapalle · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · 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.