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 · usgs
21248 events· Asia
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- India: 4417
- Russia: 2459
- Iran: 1790
- Pakistan: 1474
- Israel: 1413
- Earthquake
- 15
- 2 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 17,274
- 2 in the list
- Unrest
- 3,952
- 46 in the list
- Advisory
- 7
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
21248 events · newest first
- Unrest
Strike in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Anseong-si, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Anseong-si · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 3 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanumangarh, India
Severity 3 · India · Hanumangarh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Tongi, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Tongi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.5 — 269 km SSE of Dunhuang, China
M5.5 · China · Delingha · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 52 km SSW of Jurm, Afghanistan
M5.2 · Afghanistan · Ishkashim (Eshkashem) · Source: usgs
- 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.