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Nepal plans to drain four dangerous glacial lakes

Rank
Ran
18h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
4

+0

The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 2 Oct, 06:56 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Melayu (1) · Русский (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 25 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Express Tribune, 2 Oct, 06:56 UTC.
  2. Second country: South Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  3. Second region: Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 01:02 UTC.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

25 of 25 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

70%20%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 6 countries · 70%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 20%

First movers

  1. The Express Tribune 2 Oct, 06:56 UTC
  2. TimesLIVE +5h 47m
  3. The Business Standard +7h 39m
  4. Sky News +9h 38m
  5. The Hindu +11h 13m

Last to join

  1. Utusan Malaysia 3 Oct, 07:39 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today 3 Oct, 02:17 UTC
  3. Liberty Times 3 Oct, 01:19 UTC
  4. Tengrinews 3 Oct, 01:02 UTC
  5. The Independent 2 Oct, 20:47 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 6: Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan. Europe 1: United Kingdom. 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, Malay, Russian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Express Tribune, 2 Oct 2026, 06:56 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 12:40 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 07:39 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 Asia-Pacific, Nepal. 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 now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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
2 Oct 2026 216 5.38 6 5 6 5 4.0
3 Oct 2026 278 2.79 10 8 4 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 12:40 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 07:39 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 2 Oct, 12:43 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 3 Oct, 07:39 UTC
    Nepal kawal paras empat tasik glasier elak banjir
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 3 Oct, 02:17 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 3 Oct, 01:19 UTC
    高懸數百萬人頭頂!尼泊爾砸16億 抽排4座危險冰磧湖
  • Tengrinews Kazakhstan 3 Oct, 01:02 UTC
    В Непале планируют осушить четыре озера после катастрофического наводнения
  • The Hindu India 2 Oct, 18:09 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 2 Oct, 14:35 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan 2 Oct, 06:56 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods

Europe 2 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 2 Oct, 20:47 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes in high-stakes mission after deadly flash floods
  • Sky News United Kingdom 2 Oct, 16:34 UTC
    Nepal plans to drain four dangerous glacial lakes after deadly flood
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