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.
19115 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 16709 conflict events, and 1966 unrest events.
19115 eventsSources: gdelt
19115 events· North America
Unrest
- 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
- 0 in the list
- Unrest
- 1,966
- 50 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
19115 events · newest first
- Unrest
Demonstration in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Casper, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Casper · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lafayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lafayette · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bend · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Trenton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Trenton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in New Providence, Bahamas
Severity 3 · Bahamas · New Providence · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · San Luis Potosi · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in East Orange, United States
Severity 4 · United States · East Orange · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Gatineau, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Gatineau · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Waterloo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterloo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Waterloo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterloo · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Apopa, El Salvador
Severity 3 · El Salvador · Apopa · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Honolulu, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Honolulu · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Irvine, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Irvine · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Grand Island, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Union City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Union City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Temecula, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Temecula · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Redding, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Redding · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Bronx, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bronx · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jersey City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Jersey City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Kingston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kingston · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
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.