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Fire forces shutdown of Venezuela's Cardon refinery

Rank
Running
10h
Updated
3h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
3

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Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 6 Oct, 20:21 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (3) · Português (1) · +1 language

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 11 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Arab News, 6 Oct, 20:21 UTC.
  2. Second country: Brazil, with CNN Brasil.
  3. Second region: Americas, with CNN Brasil.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 6 Oct, 20:21 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

11 of 11 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

57%43%

  • Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 57%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 43%

First movers

  1. Arab News 6 Oct, 20:21 UTC
  2. CNN Brasil +17m
  3. Efecto Cocuyo +31m
  4. Tal Cual +1h 38m
  5. El Nacional +3h 8m

Latest arrivals

  1. Anadolu Agency 7 Oct, 03:30 UTC
  2. Al Jazeera 7 Oct, 02:23 UTC
  3. El Nacional 6 Oct, 23:29 UTC
  4. Tal Cual 6 Oct, 22:00 UTC
  5. Efecto Cocuyo 6 Oct, 20:52 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 2 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, Venezuela. Middle East 3: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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 Arab News, 6 Oct 2026, 20:21 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 03:30 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, Venezuela. Topic Energy. 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
2.50, 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
6 Oct 2026 281 3.54 3 3 3 3 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 20:30 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 03:30 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 4 outlets

  • El Nacional Venezuela 6 Oct, 23:29 UTC
    Reuters: Incendio en la refinería Cardón paraliza totalmente sus operaciones
  • Tal Cual Venezuela 6 Oct, 22:00 UTC
    Incendio obligó a paralizar operaciones en refinería Cardón: Reuters
  • Efecto Cocuyo Venezuela 6 Oct, 20:52 UTC
    Incendio obliga a detener operaciones en Cardón este 6 de octubre
  • CNN Brasil Brazil 6 Oct, 20:38 UTC
    Segunda maior refinaria da Venezuela é paralisada após incêndio

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 7 Oct, 03:30 UTC
    Fire reported at Venezuela’s Cardon refinery; blaze brought under control
  • Al Jazeera Qatar 7 Oct, 02:23 UTC
    Explosion shutters Venezuela’s second-largest oil refinery
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 6 Oct, 20:21 UTC
    Venezuela’s Cardon refinery halted amid fire, sources say
Read at Arab News

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