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US approves release of up to 4 million barrels from strategic oil reserve

Rank
Running
15h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
6

SANA Syria · Arabic 10 Oct, 20:07 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in فارسی (2) · Azərbaycan (1) · Nederlands (1) · Svenska (1) · 中文 (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: SANA, 10 Oct, 20:07 UTC.
  2. Second country: Azerbaijan, with Report.az.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Report.az.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 11 Oct, 00:45 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

17 of 17 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%43%43%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 43%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%

First movers

  1. SANA 10 Oct, 20:07 UTC
  2. Report.az +1h 9m
  3. Het Laatste Nieuws +4h 37m
  4. United Daily News +5h 31m
  5. IRNA (fa) +7h 19m

Latest arrivals

  1. Dagens industri 11 Oct, 06:00 UTC
  2. Shargh 11 Oct, 04:45 UTC
  3. IRNA (fa) 11 Oct, 03:26 UTC
  4. United Daily News 11 Oct, 01:38 UTC
  5. Het Laatste Nieuws 11 Oct, 00:45 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 2 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Taiwan. Europe 3: Azerbaijan, Belgium, Sweden. Middle East 2: Iran, Syria. 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
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Persian, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article SANA, 10 Oct 2026, 20:07 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 21:00 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 06:00 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 Energy. 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
1.02, as of now. 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.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
10 Oct 2026 319 2.63 2 2 2 2 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 10 Oct, 21:00 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 06:00 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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  • Dagens industri Sweden 11 Oct, 06:00 UTC
    USA tillåter släpp från oljereserv
  • Shargh Iran 11 Oct, 04:45 UTC
    برنامه آمریکا برای آزادسازی ۴ میلیون بشکه نفت از ذخایر راهبردی خود
  • IRNA (fa) Iran 11 Oct, 03:26 UTC
    آمریکا ۴ میلیون بشکه نفت از ذخایر راهبردی خود را آزاد می کند
  • United Daily News Taiwan 11 Oct, 01:38 UTC
    颶風衝擊石油供應 美釋出最多400萬桶戰略儲油
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 11 Oct, 00:45 UTC
    VS geven olie uit strategische voorraad vrij wegens storm Isaias
  • Report.az Azerbaijan 10 Oct, 21:16 UTC
    ABŞ-də qasırğa fonunda ehtiyatdan 4 milyon barelədək neftin buraxılmasına icazə verilib
  • SANA Syria 10 Oct, 20:07 UTC
    أمريكا تسمح بسحب 4 ملايين برميل من احتياطي النفط لمعالجة انقطاعات الإمدادات
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