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7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Panama

Rank
Running
8h
Updated
4h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
4
Regions
1
Countries
3
Languages
2

El Sol de México Mexico · Spanish 9 Oct, 14:39 UTC

The first outlet on the story

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 14 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: El Sol de México, 9 Oct, 14:39 UTC.
  2. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  3. Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

15 of 15 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Americas 4 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. El Sol de México 9 Oct, 14:39 UTC
  2. Infobae +5h 22m
  3. Metrópoles +8h 34m
  4. CNN Brasil +9h 59m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 3 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico. 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
Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article El Sol de México, 9 Oct 2026, 14:39 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 19:50 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 00:38 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
1.33, 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 345 2.91 3 3 3 3 4.6

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Started 9 Oct, 19:50 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 00:38 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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  • CNN Brasil Brazil 10 Oct, 00:38 UTC
    Itamaraty diz que não há brasileiros afetados por forte terremoto no Panamá
  • Metrópoles Brazil 9 Oct, 23:13 UTC
    Terremoto no Panamá: não há relatos de brasileiros afetados, diz Itamaraty
  • Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 20:00 UTC
    México no reporta ciudadanos afectados por terremoto de magnitud 7,7 en Panamá
  • El Sol de México Mexico 9 Oct, 14:39 UTC
    No se reportan mexicanos afectados por sismo de 7.7 grados en Panamá: SRE
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