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
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in San Diego, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Diego · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Satkhira, Bangladesh
Severity 3 · Bangladesh · Satkhira · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sterling Heights, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sterling Heights · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Makati, Philippines
Severity 3 · Philippines · Makati · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 3 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Chittagong
Severity 3 · Chittagong · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Philadelphia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Philadelphia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Las Vegas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Las Vegas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Republic of the Congo
Severity 3 · Republic of the Congo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Des Moines, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Des Moines · Source: gdelt
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Nuclear alert in San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
Severity 4 · Colombia · San Juan de Pasto · Source: gdelt
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Mass violence in Scranton, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Minab
Severity 3 · Minab · Source: gdelt
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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.