About & sources
Crisis Radar shows ongoing armed conflicts and natural hazards on one map. It collects public data in the background and refreshes it automatically. It is an overview, not an alerting service.
Data sources
- U.S. Geological Survey
Earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above, refreshed every 5 minutes. Public domain.
- GDACS (JRC / UN OCHA)
Alerts for tropical cyclones, floods, volcanoes, wildfires and droughts, refreshed every 15 minutes. Alert levels are computed by GDACS.
- The GDELT Project
News-derived event counts and article links for each conflict area, refreshed every 15 minutes. Counts reflect media coverage, not verified incidents.
- UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Program)
Verified conflict events (Candidate Events Dataset), released monthly with about a one-month lag.
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Crisis Radar matches events to conflict areas and aggregates them; the data is otherwise unchanged.
Citation: Hegre, Håvard, Mihai Croicu, Kristine Eck, and Stina Högbladh (July 2020). Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset. Research & Politics.
Citation: Shawn Davies, Therése Pettersson, Magnus Öberg, Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests, Journal of Peace Research, 2026.
UCDP is part of and funded by DEMSCORE, national research infrastructure grant 2021-00162 from the Swedish Research Council.
- Natural Earth
Country and province boundaries. Public domain.
How conflict status is calculated
- We compare news-reported events in the last 7 complete days (UTC) with the 7 days before.
- A change of +25% or more is shown as Escalating, -25% or less as De-escalating, anything in between as Ongoing.
- Status is shown as Ongoing without a change figure until 14 days of history have been collected, and also when the previous 7 days had no coverage to compare against.
- Earthquake severity is the higher of the USGS PAGER alert and a magnitude-based level (below 5.0 green, below 6.0 orange, otherwise red).
Limitations
- GDELT locates events from the places mentioned in articles, so counts can include misplaced or duplicate reports.
- UCDP data covers events with at least one fatality and is published about a month after the fact.
- Conflict areas are drawn from province boundaries. They show where a conflict is active, not front lines or control.
Not an official warning
This site does not replace official warnings. In an emergency, follow your local authorities.