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
Military force used in Fort Worth, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Worth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baguio, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Baguio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Severity 3 · Belgium · Saint-Gilles · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Asheville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Asheville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Ghazni, Afghanistan
Severity 4 · Afghanistan · Ghazni · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Sault Ste. Marie · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Baguio, Philippines
Severity 4 · Philippines · Baguio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines
Severity 4 · Philippines · San Fernando, La Union · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Daugavpils, Latvia
Severity 3 · Latvia · Daugavpils · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Abilene, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Abilene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ghazni, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Ghazni · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Baguio, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Baguio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · San Fernando, La Union · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Joplin, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Joplin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Jackson, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Jackson · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Batangas, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Batangas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Severity 3 · Belgium · Saint-Gilles · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · 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.