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Tropical Storm Rachel brings strong waves to California and Baja California coast

Rank
Running: 44h
Updated: 14h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 9
Regions: 3
Countries: 7
Languages: 4

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 10 Oct, 04:06 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (5) · +2 languages

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Financiero, 9 Oct, 19:18 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 02:30 UTC.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

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

The regions

67%22%

Americas 6 outlets · 4 countries · 67%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%

First movers

El Financiero 9 Oct, 19:18 UTC
Infobae +5h 16m
Clarín +7h 12m
Reforma +7h 52m
Free Malaysia Today +8h 47m

Latest arrivals

El Comercio 10 Oct, 23:17 UTC
New York Times 10 Oct, 20:17 UTC
Blick 10 Oct, 12:41 UTC
Detik 10 Oct, 09:55 UTC
Free Malaysia Today 10 Oct, 04:06 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 4: Argentina, Mexico, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Indonesia, Malaysia. Europe 1: Switzerland. 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: German, English, Spanish, Indonesian.
Timeline: Earliest article El Financiero, 9 Oct 2026, 19:18 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 02:24 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 International. 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: 0.15, 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 251 2.96 8 6 7 6 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 20:10 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 02:24 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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El Comercio Peru 11 Oct, 02:24 UTC
Tormenta tropical Rachel se acerca a costas mexicanas y deja lluvias en Baja California
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- Atención, ciudad de California declara emergencia local por fuerte oleaje asociado a tormenta Rachel: estas son las medidas implementadas 10 Oct, 23:17 UTC
Infobae Argentina 10 Oct, 23:31 UTC
La tormenta tropical Rachel se acerca a costas mexicanas y deja lluvias en Baja California
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New York Times United States 10 Oct, 20:17 UTC
Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel Target Mexico as Isaias Hits Gulf
Blick Switzerland 10 Oct, 12:41 UTC
«So schlimm war es in meinen 20 Jahren hier noch nie»
Detik Indonesia 10 Oct, 09:55 UTC
California Diterjang Badai Rachel, Air Laut Meluap ke Jalanan
Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 10 Oct, 04:06 UTC
Powerful waves lash California’s coast as storm threatens more damage
Reforma Mexico 10 Oct, 03:10 UTC
Azotan fuertes olas a California, amenazado por tormenta
Clarín Argentina 10 Oct, 02:30 UTC
Fuertes olas azotan la costa de California, amenazada por una tormenta
El Financiero Mexico 9 Oct, 19:18 UTC
‘Rachel’ toma segundo aire en el Pacífico: Entrará como tormenta a Baja California y se irá a EU