Risk events in Europe, 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.
8232 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 7412 conflict events, and 819 unrest events.
8232 eventsSources: gdelt
8232 events· Europe
ConflictUnrest
- Ukraine: 2029
- United Kingdom: 1755
- Spain: 710
- France: 566
- Germany: 432
- Earthquake
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 7,412
- 31 in the list
- Unrest
- 819
- 19 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
8232 events · newest first
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · United Kingdom · Braintree · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Brighton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Brighton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bath, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bath · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bristol, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Bristol · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Severity 3 · Slovakia · Banská Bystrica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Geneva, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Geneva · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Podgorica, Montenegro
Severity 3 · Montenegro · Podgorica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Alexandroupoli, Greece
Severity 3 · Greece · Alexandroupoli · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Derby, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Derby · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Crewe, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Crewe · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Zurich, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Zurich · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in York, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · York · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Zurich, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Zurich · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Santiago de Compostela · 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.