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.
84549 events were recorded: 169 earthquakes, 3 disaster alerts, 72860 conflict events, and 11516 unrest events.
84549 eventsSources: gdelt · usgs
84549 events· the world
ConflictUnrestEarthquake
- United States: 25598
- Iran: 5078
- India: 4160
- Israel: 3353
- Nigeria: 2942
- Earthquake
- 169
- 5 in the list
- Disaster
- 3
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 72,860
- 30 in the list
- Unrest
- 11,516
- 15 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
84549 events · newest first
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot in Buea, Equatorial Guinea
Severity 4 · Equatorial Guinea · Buea · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Strike in Utica, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Utica · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in West Hartford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · West Hartford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cedar Rapids, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cedar Rapids · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Earthquake
M5.1 — north of Ascension Island
M5.1 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.4 — north of Ascension Island
M5.4 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 278 km SE of Katsuura, Japan
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M6.0 — south of the Kermadec Islands
M6.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.2 — 96 km SSW of Paracas, Peru
M5.2 · Peru · Pisco · Source: usgs
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Nagapattinam, Sri Lanka
Severity 3 · Sri Lanka · Nagapattinam · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Chornomorsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Chornomorsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Eau Claire, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Eau Claire · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Atlanta, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Atlanta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belize City, Belize
Severity 3 · Belize · Belize City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kettering, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Kettering · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Omaha, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Omaha · 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.