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 United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 4 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Fe, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Fe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Coban (Cobán), Guatemala
Severity 4 · Guatemala · Coban (Cobán) · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Albuquerque, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albuquerque · 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 Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Colorado Springs, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Colorado Springs · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Asheville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Asheville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Reno, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Reno · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Lawn, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Lawn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Albany, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Albany · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Waterford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Waterford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Buffalo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Buffalo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in San Vicente, Costa Rica
Severity 3 · Costa Rica · San Vicente · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Lawn, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oak Lawn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bethlehem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bethlehem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntersville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntersville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · 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 Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nashville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Westland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Westland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sterling Heights, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sterling Heights · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Barbara, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Barbara · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Buckeye, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Buckeye · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Petaluma, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Petaluma · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yonkers, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Yonkers · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Danbury, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Danbury · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Greenland
Severity 3 · Greenland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Guadalajara, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Guadalajara · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · 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.