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
Strike in Gainesville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Gainesville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Orlando, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orlando · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Matlapaneng, Lesotho
Severity 3 · Lesotho · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yangsan, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Yangsan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 4 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 4 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fort Lauderdale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Lauderdale · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Davanagere (Davangere), India
Severity 3 · India · Davanagere (Davangere) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bakixanov (Bakikhanov), Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · 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.