Americas / Panama · Environment

Earthquake in Panama leaves Tonosí and Penonomé without water and power

Rank: 67
Ran: 2d
Updated: 5h ago
Final
Outlets: 16
Regions: 1
Countries: 12
Languages: 2

Newsroom Panama Panama · English 11 Oct, 13:39 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Español (15)

Read at Newsroom Panama

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Comercio, 9 Oct, 19:54 UTC.
Second country: Panama, with TVN Panamá.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC.
Last article: 16 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 12 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 16 outlets · 12 countries · 100%

First movers

El Comercio 9 Oct, 19:54 UTC
TVN Panamá +21h 31m
Infobae +29h 51m
La Hora (GT) +30h 53m
Expreso (EC) +31h 34m

Last to join

Últimas Noticias 11 Oct, 21:44 UTC
El Espectador 11 Oct, 20:30 UTC
Primicias 11 Oct, 18:41 UTC
Hoy 11 Oct, 18:40 UTC
Visión 360 11 Oct, 17:51 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 16 outlets in 12 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 16 outlets, 16 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 12: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela. 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 El Comercio, 9 Oct 2026, 19:54 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 20:00 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 22:17 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 Americas, Panama. 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: 2.57, 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.
Chain: Merged from 2 stories Earthquake in Panama leaves Tonosí and Penonomé without water and power; Earthquake in Panama leaves residents displaced, fearing aftershocks and seeking shelter aid. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

11 Oct 2026 102 6.17 16 12 15 11 4.7

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Started 9 Oct, 20:00 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 22:17 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 16 outlets

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