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
- Conflict
- 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 Bronx, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bronx · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mansfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mansfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mount Vernon, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mount Vernon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bend · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Abilene, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Abilene · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Mansfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Mansfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Troy, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Troy · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bethlehem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bethlehem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yakima, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Yakima · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Billings, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Billings · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Great Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Great Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Iowa City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Iowa City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Harlingen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Harlingen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Wilmington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Wilmington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bellingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bellingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Santa Monica, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Santa Monica · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Sacramento, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sacramento · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Boise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Boise · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in La Mesa, United States
Severity 3 · United States · La Mesa · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pocatello, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pocatello · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in White Plains, United States
Severity 3 · United States · White Plains · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Bend, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bend · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bismarck, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Bismarck · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fort Worth, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fort Worth · 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.