Risk events in North America, April 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.
28910 events were recorded: 4 earthquakes, 25295 conflict events, and 3611 unrest events.
28910 eventsSources: gdelt
28910 events· North America
Conflict
- United States: 25598
- Canada: 1641
- Mexico: 742
- Cuba: 194
- Haiti: 137
- Earthquake
- 4
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 25,295
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 3,611
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Signal
How the picture is moving
Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days
Events by type
Against the 90-day baseline
Events per day
| Date | Earthquake | Disaster | Conflict | Unrest | Advisory | Fire hotspots |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-02 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-03 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-04 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 9 | 0 | 1605 |
| 2026-04-05 | 0 | 0 | 554 | 62 | 0 | 625 |
| 2026-04-06 | 0 | 0 | 812 | 112 | 0 | 599 |
| 2026-04-07 | 0 | 0 | 1066 | 140 | 0 | 779 |
| 2026-04-08 | 0 | 0 | 1081 | 161 | 0 | 1089 |
| 2026-04-09 | 0 | 0 | 1077 | 203 | 0 | 1104 |
| 2026-04-10 | 0 | 0 | 1055 | 160 | 0 | 1152 |
| 2026-04-11 | 0 | 0 | 692 | 79 | 0 | 1023 |
| 2026-04-12 | 0 | 0 | 519 | 75 | 0 | 1004 |
| 2026-04-13 | 0 | 0 | 839 | 138 | 0 | 837 |
| 2026-04-14 | 3 | 0 | 1058 | 189 | 0 | 1292 |
| 2026-04-15 | 0 | 0 | 1115 | 160 | 0 | 1076 |
| 2026-04-16 | 0 | 0 | 1145 | 177 | 0 | 1130 |
| 2026-04-17 | 0 | 0 | 1054 | 134 | 0 | 1529 |
| 2026-04-18 | 0 | 0 | 711 | 91 | 0 | 1020 |
| 2026-04-19 | 0 | 0 | 633 | 66 | 0 | 778 |
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 0 | 1179 | 142 | 0 | 721 |
| 2026-04-21 | 0 | 0 | 1248 | 177 | 0 | 1060 |
| 2026-04-22 | 0 | 0 | 1179 | 154 | 0 | 963 |
| 2026-04-23 | 0 | 0 | 1159 | 165 | 0 | 1499 |
| 2026-04-24 | 0 | 0 | 1045 | 152 | 0 | 1077 |
| 2026-04-25 | 0 | 0 | 715 | 93 | 0 | 924 |
| 2026-04-26 | 0 | 0 | 729 | 83 | 0 | 1120 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 0 | 1050 | 136 | 0 | 940 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1 | 0 | 1162 | 182 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-29 | 0 | 0 | 1198 | 203 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 0 | 0 | 1086 | 161 | 0 | 0 |
Events
What is happening now
28910 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in South Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · South Bend · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in South Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · South Bend · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Eden Prairie, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Eden Prairie · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Muncie, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Muncie · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dubuque, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dubuque · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Diego, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Diego · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hoboken, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hoboken · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Knoxville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Knoxville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tampa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tampa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Warwick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Warwick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Fe, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Fe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pawtucket, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pawtucket · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Piscataway, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Piscataway · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pawtucket, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pawtucket · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pittsburgh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pittsburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Greenville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greenville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Joliet, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Joliet · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Warwick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Warwick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Atlanta, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Atlanta · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Greenwood, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greenwood · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tallahassee, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tallahassee · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · 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.