Risk events in the world, April 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.
84548 events were recorded: 169 earthquakes, 3 disaster alerts, 72860 conflict events, and 11516 unrest events.
84548 eventsSources: gdelt
84548 events· the world
Conflict
- United States: 25598
- Iran: 5078
- India: 4160
- Israel: 3353
- Nigeria: 2942
- Earthquake
- 169
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 3
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 72,860
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 11,516
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
84548 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool
Severity 3 · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Newcastle
Severity 3 · Newcastle · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Smith, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Smith · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yangsan, South Korea
Severity 3 · South Korea · Yangsan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
Severity 3 · Lebanon · Tyre (Sour) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Male
Severity 3 · Male · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Kuwait City, Kuwait
Severity 3 · Kuwait · Kuwait City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Pondicherry, India
Severity 3 · India · Pondicherry · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 4 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Londonderry, Ireland
Severity 3 · Ireland · Londonderry · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Geneva, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Geneva · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · 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.