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: gdelt
93265 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
93265 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Brentwood, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Brentwood · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Sievierodonetsk · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Alexandria, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Alexandria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kennewick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kennewick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Severity 3 · Tajikistan · Dushanbe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Puerto Ayacucho, Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Puerto Ayacucho · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kuwait City, Kuwait
Severity 3 · Kuwait · Kuwait City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort-de-france
Severity 3 · Fort-de-france · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Waco, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dearborn, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dearborn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Casper, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Casper · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kabul, Afghanistan
Severity 3 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Martial law in Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Saidu Sharif · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Pyongyang, North Korea
Severity 4 · North Korea · Pyongyang · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colombia
Severity 3 · Colombia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Brazil
Severity 3 · Brazil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela
Severity 3 · Venezuela · Caicara del Orinoco · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool
Severity 3 · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kota Damansara, Malaysia
Severity 3 · Malaysia · Kota Damansara · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · 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.