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.
21248 events were recorded: 15 earthquakes, 17274 conflict events, 3952 unrest events, and 7 advisory changes.
21248 eventsSources: gdelt
21248 events· Asia
Unrest
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- Iran: 1790
- Pakistan: 1474
- Israel: 1413
- Earthquake
- 15
- 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
21248 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Sharjah · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Hamhung, North Korea
Severity 4 · North Korea · Hamhung · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Severity 3 · China · Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Saint Petersburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 4 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Yevlax, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Yevlax · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Chhindwara, India
Severity 3 · India · Chhindwara · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Seoul, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Seoul · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Mecca · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Manikganj, Bangladesh
Severity 4 · Bangladesh · Manikganj · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
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Demonstration in Chandigarh, India
Severity 3 · India · Chandigarh · 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.