Risk events in the world, May 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.
93265 events were recorded: 127 earthquakes, 1 disaster alert, 80128 conflict events, and 13009 unrest events.
93265 eventsSources: usgs · ucdp · gdelt
93265 events· the world
ConflictEarthquake
- United States: 28551
- India: 5431
- Iran: 3977
- Russia: 3365
- Ukraine: 3099
- Earthquake
- 127
- 3 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 80,128
- 47 in the list
- Unrest
- 13,009
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Signal
How the picture is moving
Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days
Events by type
Against the 90-day baseline
Events per day
| Date | Earthquake | Disaster | Conflict | Unrest | Advisory | Fire hotspots |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 4 | 0 | 2667 | 556 | 0 | 19711 |
| 2026-05-02 | 6 | 0 | 1989 | 445 | 0 | 24220 |
| 2026-05-03 | 1 | 0 | 1879 | 292 | 0 | 23382 |
| 2026-05-04 | 3 | 0 | 2713 | 487 | 0 | 25371 |
| 2026-05-05 | 5 | 0 | 3167 | 490 | 0 | 9251 |
| 2026-05-06 | 5 | 0 | 3228 | 555 | 0 | 15291 |
| 2026-05-07 | 2 | 0 | 3146 | 518 | 0 | 20864 |
| 2026-05-08 | 2 | 1 | 3084 | 480 | 0 | 17897 |
| 2026-05-09 | 4 | 0 | 2119 | 335 | 0 | 17705 |
| 2026-05-10 | 7 | 0 | 2033 | 285 | 0 | 18522 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2 | 0 | 2787 | 392 | 0 | 20004 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5 | 0 | 2952 | 495 | 0 | 18271 |
| 2026-05-13 | 4 | 0 | 2916 | 459 | 0 | 23482 |
| 2026-05-14 | 4 | 0 | 2984 | 521 | 0 | 25972 |
| 2026-05-15 | 2 | 0 | 2699 | 451 | 0 | 22155 |
| 2026-05-16 | 8 | 0 | 2112 | 326 | 0 | 16367 |
| 2026-05-17 | 4 | 0 | 1967 | 299 | 0 | 12082 |
| 2026-05-18 | 5 | 0 | 2946 | 468 | 0 | 16634 |
| 2026-05-19 | 2 | 0 | 3192 | 479 | 0 | 16193 |
| 2026-05-20 | 8 | 0 | 2928 | 517 | 0 | 18954 |
| 2026-05-21 | 0 | 0 | 2802 | 470 | 0 | 20104 |
| 2026-05-22 | 8 | 0 | 2689 | 452 | 0 | 17317 |
| 2026-05-23 | 6 | 0 | 1870 | 292 | 0 | 14260 |
| 2026-05-24 | 2 | 0 | 1962 | 272 | 0 | 18738 |
| 2026-05-25 | 5 | 0 | 2420 | 384 | 0 | 29776 |
| 2026-05-26 | 5 | 0 | 3002 | 452 | 0 | 27048 |
| 2026-05-27 | 5 | 0 | 2955 | 464 | 0 | 22736 |
| 2026-05-28 | 3 | 0 | 2692 | 399 | 0 | 26656 |
| 2026-05-29 | 4 | 0 | 2614 | 423 | 0 | 28589 |
| 2026-05-30 | 3 | 0 | 1712 | 267 | 0 | 29815 |
| 2026-05-31 | 3 | 0 | 1902 | 284 | 0 | 20170 |
Events
What is happening now
93265 events · newest first
- Earthquake
M6.0 — 33 km NW of Valparaíso, Chile
M6.0 · Vina del Mar · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — 71 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Palm Desert, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Palm Desert · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in New Haven, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New Haven · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Maple Grove, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Maple Grove · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Vacaville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Vacaville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Qandahar, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Qandahar · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Minab
Severity 3 · Minab · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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.