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 Cheyenne, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cheyenne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Severity 3 · Russia · Saint Petersburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · United Kingdom · Braintree · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Severity 4 · Russia · Saint Petersburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Kochi
Severity 3 · Kochi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waukegan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waukegan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bandar Ganaveh, Iran
Severity 3 · Iran · Bandar Ganaveh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lelystad, Netherlands
Severity 3 · Netherlands · Lelystad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Stockton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Stockton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in St Louis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · St Louis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kiryat Gat, Israel
Severity 3 · Israel · Kiryat Gat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Severity 4 · Sri Lanka · Batticaloa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Irving, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Irving · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kennewick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kennewick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Fe, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Fe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Evaton, South Africa
Severity 3 · South Africa · Evaton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cranbourne, Australia
Severity 3 · Australia · Cranbourne · Source: gdelt
- 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.