Asia-Pacific / Philippines · Environment

Taal Volcano erupts near Manila with ash column

Rank
Running: 38h
Updated: 19h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 3
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

The Manila Times Philippines · English 8 Oct, 13:00 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Nederlands (1) · +1 language

Read at The Manila Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Manila Times, 8 Oct, 13:00 UTC.
Second country: Qatar, with Al Jazeera.
Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

50%17%33%

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%

First movers

The Manila Times 8 Oct, 13:00 UTC
GMA News +1h 14m
Al Jazeera +3h 55m
China News Service +16h 29m
Gulf News +18h 8m

Latest arrivals

NU.nl 9 Oct, 09:17 UTC
Gulf News 9 Oct, 07:08 UTC
China News Service 9 Oct, 05:28 UTC
Al Jazeera 8 Oct, 16:55 UTC
GMA News 8 Oct, 14:14 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 2: China, Philippines. Europe 1: Netherlands. Middle East 2: Qatar, United Arab Emirates. 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, Dutch, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Manila Times, 8 Oct 2026, 13:00 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 09:17 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 Asia-Pacific, Philippines. 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: 0.12, 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

9 Oct 2026 275 3.31 6 5 4 4 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 14:10 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 09:17 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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NU.nl Netherlands 9 Oct, 09:17 UTC
Video | Vulkaan spuwt aswolk in Filipijnen
Gulf News United Arab Emirates 9 Oct, 07:08 UTC
Philippines: Taal Volcano blasts ash 4,000 metres into the sky in five-minute eruption
The Manila Times Philippines 9 Oct, 05:30 UTC
Phivolcs: Taal logs five volcanic quakes, remains at Alert Level 1
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Parts of Batangas may see thin ashfall after Taal eruption 8 Oct, 13:00 UTC
China News Service China 9 Oct, 05:28 UTC
菲律宾：塔阿尔火山喷发多个市镇将现火山灰沉降
Al Jazeera Qatar 8 Oct, 16:55 UTC
Video shows dramatic eruption of volcano near Manila
GMA News Philippines 8 Oct, 14:14 UTC
Phreatomagmatic eruption recorded at Taal Volcano