Risk events in Asia, 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.
21705 events were recorded: 17 earthquakes, 17274 conflict events, 3952 unrest events, and 7 advisory changes.
21705 eventsSources: gdelt
21705 events· Asia
Unrest
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2460
- Iran: 1790
- Pakistan: 1474
- Israel: 1413
- Earthquake
- 17
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 17,274
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 3,952
- 50 in the list
- Advisory
- 7
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
21705 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 4 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 3 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Komsomol'sk-na-Amure · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Palasa-Kasibugga, India
Severity 4 · India · Palasa-Kasibugga · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Alīpur Duār, India
Severity 3 · India · Alīpur Duār · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- 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.