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Chile declares disaster in Santiago after severe flooding

Rank: –
Ran: 47h
Updated: 8h ago
Closed
Outlets: 12
Regions: 3
Countries: 7
Languages: 3

Merged into Flash floods and mudslides strike Santiago, Chile

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 7 Oct, 22:18 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Español (7) · +1 language

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 7 Oct, 22:18 UTC.
Second country: Peru, with RPP.
Second region: Americas, with RPP.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 8 Oct, 22:44 UTC.
Last article: 12 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

75%17%

Americas 9 outlets · 5 countries · 75%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%

First movers

Anadolu Agency 7 Oct, 22:18 UTC
RPP +24h 26m
BioBioChile +25h 2m
Exitosa +25h 9m
Infobae +26h 12m

Last to join

G1 9 Oct, 22:08 UTC
La República (PE) 9 Oct, 20:33 UTC
El Nacional 9 Oct, 12:39 UTC
Observador 9 Oct, 10:41 UTC
Metrópoles 9 Oct, 08:11 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 12 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 12 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Venezuela. Europe 1: Portugal. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 7 Oct 2026, 22:18 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 22:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 22:08 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, Chile. 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: None of its own. It was merged into Flash floods and mudslides strike Santiago, Chile, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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 into Flash floods and mudslides strike Santiago, Chile. 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.

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 22:30 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 22:08 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 12 outlets

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G1 Brazil 9 Oct, 22:08 UTC
VÍDEO mostra enxurrada de água e lama invadindo ruas no Chile; país decretou calamidade
La República (PE) Peru 9 Oct, 20:33 UTC
Kast decreta estado de catástrofe en Las Condes tras aluvión en Santiago que dejó seis heridos y graves daños
El Nacional Venezuela 9 Oct, 12:39 UTC
Presidente de Chile decreta estado de catástrofe en zona este de Santiago arrasada por torrente de agua
Observador Portugal 9 Oct, 10:41 UTC
Chile decreta estado de catástrofe devido a chuvas intensas
Metrópoles Brazil 9 Oct, 08:11 UTC
Chile declara calamidade pública após deslizamento de terra em Santiago
RTP Portugal 9 Oct, 05:30 UTC
Líder do Chile decreta estado de catástrofe em Santiago devido a chuvas intensas
Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 04:16 UTC
Kast decreta el estado de catástrofe en la comuna de Las Condes, en el este de Santiago, por torrente de agua
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Kast decretó zona de catástrofe el este de Santiago de Chile tras un torrente que arrastró vehículos y dejó al menos seis heridos 9 Oct, 01:42 UTC
- Kast decreta estado de catástrofe en zona este de Santiago arrasada por torrente de agua 9 Oct, 00:31 UTC
El Comercio Peru 9 Oct, 02:32 UTC
Chile: Presidente Kast decreta estado de catástrofe en zona este de Santiago arrasada por aluvión
RPP Peru 9 Oct, 00:25 UTC
Kast decreta estado de catástrofe en zona este de Santiago arrasada por torrente de agua
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Chile: declaran alerta roja en 10 comunas de la zona precordillera de Santiago tras aluvión 8 Oct, 22:44 UTC
Exitosa Peru 8 Oct, 23:28 UTC
Gobierno de Chile declara zona de cat�strofe comuna de Las Condes tras aluvi�n
BioBioChile Chile 8 Oct, 23:20 UTC
Decretan zona de catástrofe para Las Condes por devastador aluvión en San Carlos de Apoquindo
Anadolu Agency Turkey 7 Oct, 22:18 UTC
Chile declares yellow alert for Santiago region over heavy rainfall