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
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bakixanov (Bakikhanov), Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Howrah (Haora), India
Severity 3 · India · Howrah (Haora) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Poole, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Poole · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Amstelveen, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Amstelveen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Frederick, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Frederick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Ardabil, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Ardabil · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yevlax, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Yevlax · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force
Severity 3 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nashua, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashua · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in York, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · York · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Amherst, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Amherst · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Severity 3 · Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- 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.