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
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
19115 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Rapid City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Rapid City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Joplin, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Joplin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Miami, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Miami · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Antonio, United States
Severity 3 · United States · San Antonio · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Elgin, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Elgin · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sault Ste. Marie, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sault Ste. Marie · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Clara, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Clara · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Lawn, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Lawn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in O'Fallon, United States
Severity 4 · United States · O'Fallon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cleveland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cleveland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Middletown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Middletown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Akron, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Akron · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kansas City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kansas City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tyler, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tyler · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Trenton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Trenton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Winston-Salem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Winston-Salem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waltham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waltham · Source: gdelt
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Military force used in Rochester, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Rochester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · 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.