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El Niño brings sea level rise and Kelvin wave to California

Rank
Ran: 31h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 2

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 11:00 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (1)

Read at The Guardian

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Guardian, 30 Sept, 11:00 UTC.
Second country: United States, with New York Times.
Second region: Americas, with New York Times.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 50%

First movers

The Guardian 30 Sept, 11:00 UTC
New York Times +3h
The Independent +11h 55m
Infobae +31h 54m

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article The Guardian, 30 Sept 2026, 11:00 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 11:20 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 18:54 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Sea levels rise in California from El Niño coastal wave; "STIŽE NAM KELVINOV TALAS" Preteći fenomen PLANETARNIH RAZMERA ide ka obali, raste strah: "Ni ne vidite da dolazi". A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 30 Sept, 11:20 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 18:54 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

Infobae Argentina 1 Oct, 18:54 UTC
El Niño podría influir en el nivel del mar y pone en alerta a este estado de EEUU por riesgo de inundaciones
New York Times United States 30 Sept, 14:00 UTC
See How El Niño Is Washing Ashore in California

Covered by 4 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Europe 2 outlets