Americas / Panama · Environment

Earthquake in Panama leaves residents displaced, fearing aftershocks and seeking shelter aid

Rank: –
Ran: 47h
Updated: 8h ago
Closed
Outlets: 7
Regions: 1
Countries: 7
Languages: 1

Merged into Earthquake in Panama leaves Tonosí and Penonomé without water and power

El Comercio Peru · Spanish 9 Oct, 19:54 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 7 reports

Read at El Comercio

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Comercio, 9 Oct, 19:54 UTC.
Second country: Panama, with TVN Panamá.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 11 Oct, 15:42 UTC.
Last article: 7 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

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Americas 7 outlets · 7 countries · 100%

First movers

El Comercio 9 Oct, 19:54 UTC
TVN Panamá +21h 31m
Infobae +43h 48m
El Observador (CR) +44h 45m
El Sol de México +44h 55m

Last to join

Primicias 11 Oct, 18:41 UTC
Visión 360 11 Oct, 17:51 UTC
El Sol de México 11 Oct, 16:49 UTC
El Observador (CR) 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC
Infobae 11 Oct, 15:42 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 7 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 7: Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article El Comercio, 9 Oct 2026, 19:54 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 20:00 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 19:33 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: None of its own. It was merged into Earthquake in Panama leaves Tonosí and Penonomé without water and power, 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: Continued by Temblor en Panamá: Chiriquí habilita centro de acopio para enviar ayuda humanitaria a las comunidades afectadas. Merged into Earthquake in Panama leaves Tonosí and Penonomé without water and power. 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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Started 9 Oct, 20:00 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 19:33 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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