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
Conflict
- 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
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 3,952
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 7
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
21248 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 3 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Panabo, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Panabo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 4 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Komsomol'sk-na-Amure · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kabul, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bakixanov (Bakikhanov), Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Johor Bahru, Singapore
Severity 3 · Singapore · Johor Bahru · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Laoag City, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Laoag City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Sharjah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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.