Risk events in United Kingdom, 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.
2229 events were recorded: 1992 conflict events and 237 unrest events.
2229 eventsSources: gdelt
2229 events· United Kingdom
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,992
- 32 in the list
- Unrest
- 237
- 18 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
2229 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oxford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Oxford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Weston-super-Mare · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Burnley, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Burnley · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Braintree · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oxford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Oxford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Nottingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Middlesbrough · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Littlehampton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Littlehampton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Bristol, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Bristol · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Plymouth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Plymouth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Southampton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Southampton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mansfield, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Mansfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Oxford, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Oxford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Liverpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Liverpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Reading, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Reading · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Braintree · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rugby, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Rugby · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Colchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Aylesbury, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Aylesbury · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military mobilization in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Eastleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Portsmouth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · 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.