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
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntsville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntsville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Birmingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Birmingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Smith, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Smith · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Rawalpindi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Allen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Allen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Matlapaneng, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Matlapaneng · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Columbus, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Roodepoort, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Roodepoort · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Evaton, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Evaton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ellicott City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ellicott City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Navi Mumbai, India
Severity 3 · India · Navi Mumbai · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar), Indonesia
Severity 3 · Indonesia · Pematangsiantar (Pematang Siantar) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manzini, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Manzini · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Abilene, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Abilene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Utica, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Utica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New York, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New York · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeville · 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.