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 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Weymouth
Severity 3 · Weymouth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Ålesund
Severity 3 · Ålesund · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hamilton
Severity 3 · Hamilton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Rugby, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Rugby · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Nottingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oxford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Oxford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mahasamund, India
Severity 3 · India · Mahasamund · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine
Severity 3 · Ukraine · Kropyvnytskyi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Mehsana (Mahesana), India
Severity 3 · India · Mehsana (Mahesana) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Alberton, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Alberton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Warwick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Warwick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi), Saudi Arabia
Severity 3 · Saudi Arabia · Al Duwadimi (Ad Dawadmi) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · 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.