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
Unrest
- 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
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 13,009
- 50 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
93265 events · newest first
- Unrest
Riot in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Severity 4 · Hong Kong (China) · Hong Kong · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand
Severity 3 · New Zealand · Wellington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Guyana
Severity 3 · Guyana · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Fatwah, Bihar, India
Severity 3 · India · Fatwah, Bihar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Pocatello, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gandhinagar, India
Severity 3 · India · Gandhinagar · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lucknow (Lakhnau), India
Severity 3 · India · Lucknow (Lakhnau) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Corby, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Corby · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Severity 3 · United Arab Emirates · Sharjah · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Riot
Severity 4 · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Baku, Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Baku · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Severity 3 · Spain · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bakixanov (Bakikhanov), Azerbaijan
Severity 3 · Azerbaijan · Bakixanov (Bakikhanov) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Framingham, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
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.