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.
18676 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 16709 conflict events, and 1966 unrest events.
18676 eventsSources: gdelt
18676 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
18676 events · newest first
- Unrest
Civil unrest in Centreville, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Sault Ste. Marie, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sault Ste. Marie · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Thunder Bay, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Thunder Bay · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Queens County, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Queens County · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in High Point, United States
Severity 3 · United States · High Point · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Jackson, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Jackson · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manhattan, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Manhattan · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Greenwood, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Greenwood · 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 Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Riot in Cambridge, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 3 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Syracuse, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Syracuse · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Birmingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Birmingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Hollywood, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hollywood · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Paradise, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Paradise · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Daly City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Daly City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Aguascalientes · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
- Unrest
- Unrest
Demonstration in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Detroit, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Detroit · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Nashville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Nashville · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Quebec City, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Quebec City · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Coban (Cobán), Guatemala
Severity 3 · Guatemala · Coban (Cobán) · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Strike in Eugene, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Eugene · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Warwick, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Warwick · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Severity 3 · Jamaica · Montego Bay · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Austin, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Austin · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Normal · 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.