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 Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Abilene, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Abilene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Talisay City, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Talisay City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Naberezhnye Chelny · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Thousand Oaks, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Thousand Oaks · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Baguio, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Baguio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Makati, Philippines
Severity 4 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Muzaffargarh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Windhoek West, Namibia
Severity 3 · Namibia · Windhoek West · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Portland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Portland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lucerne, Switzerland
Severity 3 · Switzerland · Lucerne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Novomoskovsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Novomoskovsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Iskandariyah, Iraq
Severity 3 · Iraq · Al Iskandariyah · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Martial law in Al Iskandariyah, Iraq
Severity 3 · Iraq · Al Iskandariyah · 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.