Risk events in North America, August 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.
19111 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 16709 conflict events, and 1966 unrest events.
19111 eventsSources: gdelt
19111 events· North America
Conflict
- United States: 16535
- Canada: 1238
- Mexico: 358
- Cuba: 140
- Jamaica: 72
- Earthquake
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 16,709
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 1,966
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
19111 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Trenton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Trenton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kansas City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kansas City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Albuquerque, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albuquerque · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- 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 Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Amarillo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Amarillo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Greenland
Severity 3 · Greenland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Akron, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Akron · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Worth, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Worth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baltimore, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baltimore · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Des Moines, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Des Moines · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Lynchburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lynchburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in North Charleston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · North Charleston · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Buffalo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Buffalo · 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.