Risk events in United Kingdom, 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.
3776 events were recorded: 3293 conflict events and 483 unrest events.
3776 eventsSources: gdelt
3776 events· United Kingdom
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 3,293
- 31 in the list
- Unrest
- 483
- 19 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
3776 events · newest first
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Londonderry, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Londonderry · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tamworth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Tamworth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Newcastle upon Tyne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Tunbridge Wells · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Swansea, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Swansea · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Folkestone, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Folkestone · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Bexley, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Bexley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Eastleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kettering, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Kettering · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Fareham, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Fareham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Warrington, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Warrington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lincoln, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lincoln · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Royal Leamington Spa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oldham, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Oldham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in St Helens, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · St Helens · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sutton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Sutton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Salford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Salford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military posture change in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Cardiff · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Norwich, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Norwich · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · 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.