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 Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oklahoma City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oklahoma City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baltimore, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baltimore · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Athens, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Athens · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Reston, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Reston · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Macon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Macon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pensacola, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pensacola · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in The Woodlands, United States
Severity 3 · United States · The Woodlands · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Alexandria, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Alexandria · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Warner Robins, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Warner Robins · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bend · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Nanaimo, BC · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Scranton, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Casper, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Casper · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Portland, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Portland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Renton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Renton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Levittown, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Levittown · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 3 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Daly City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Daly City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fresno, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fresno · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oranjestad, Aruba
Severity 3 · Aruba · Oranjestad · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lodi, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lodi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lodi, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lodi · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
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.