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.
93266 events were recorded: 127 earthquakes, 1 disaster alert, 80128 conflict events, and 13009 unrest events.
93266 eventsSources: gdelt
93266 events· the world
Conflict
- United States: 28551
- India: 5431
- Iran: 3977
- Russia: 3365
- Ukraine: 3099
- Earthquake
- 127
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 80,128
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 13,009
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
93266 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Poole, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Poole · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Poole, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Poole · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al-Ubayyid, Sudan
Severity 3 · Sudan · Al-Ubayyid · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Libya
Severity 3 · Libya · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Sudan
Severity 3 · South Sudan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Prairie, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Prairie · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waco, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Raleigh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Raleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-donu), Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-donu) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-donu), Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Rostov-on-Don (Rostov-na-donu) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gold Coast, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Gold Coast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Diepsloot, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Diepsloot · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Reston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Reston · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran
Severity 4 · Iran · Bandar-e Mahshahr · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cape Coral, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cape Coral · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Santa Lucía de Tirajana · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dudley, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Dudley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iligan, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Iligan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Oakland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oakland · 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.