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Sea levels rise in California from El Niño coastal wave

Rank
Ran
39h
Updated
33h ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
4

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Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia · English 3 Oct, 05:58 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · Français (2) · Српски (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 40 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Le Soir, 2 Oct, 21:04 UTC.
  2. Second country: France, with Le Monde.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Asharq Al-Awsat.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 12:28 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%13%50%12%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 1 country · 25%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 50%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Le Soir 2 Oct, 21:04 UTC
  2. Le Monde +4h 42m
  3. Asharq Al-Awsat +8h 54m
  4. The Independent +15h 24m
  5. Malay Mail +15h 56m

Last to join

  1. Clarín 4 Oct, 13:07 UTC
  2. La Nación (AR) 3 Oct, 22:01 UTC
  3. N1 3 Oct, 21:48 UTC
  4. Malay Mail 3 Oct, 13:00 UTC
  5. The Independent 3 Oct, 12:28 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: El Niño brings sea level rise and Kelvin wave to California, 30 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 4: Belgium, France, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. 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, French, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Le Soir, 2 Oct 2026, 21:04 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 21:30 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 13:07 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
0.00, 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
Continues El Niño brings sea level rise and Kelvin wave to California. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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
3 Oct 2026 102 7.96 7 7 6 6 4.0
4 Oct 2026 320 2.53 8 7 1 1 4.1

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Started 2 Oct, 21:30 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 13:07 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • Clarín Argentina 4 Oct, 13:07 UTC
    ¿Qué son las ondas Kelvin que golpean la costa del Pacífico y podrían causar inundaciones?
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina 3 Oct, 22:01 UTC
    La defensa de California contra el fenómeno de “El Niño” que busca salvar de las inundaciones a millones de personas

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Malay Mail Malaysia 3 Oct, 13:00 UTC
    The dark side of El Nino: Sea levels to rise in California as coastal wave surges up west coast

Europe 4 outlets

  • N1 Serbia 3 Oct, 21:48 UTC
    Nalet tople vode Pacifika ka SAD mogao bi da ošteti obale i izazove poplave
  • The Independent United Kingdom 3 Oct, 12:28 UTC
    A pulse of warm water hitting the Pacific coast could mean erosion and flooding
  • Le Monde France 3 Oct, 01:46 UTC
    En Californie, le niveau de la mer va temporairement augmenter d’une trentaine de centimètres
  • Le Soir Belgium 2 Oct, 21:04 UTC
    Californie : hausse du niveau de la mer attendue sous l’effet El Niño

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 3 Oct, 05:58 UTC
    Sea Levels to Rise in California as Coastal Wave Surges Up West Coast
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