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Severe storms and flooding hit Crete, forcing evacuations

Rank
Ran
45h
Updated
10h ago
Closed
Outlets
11
Regions
4
Countries
10
Languages
5

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Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 3 Oct, 14:36 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Română (2) · Polski (1) · 中文 (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 46 hours.

5 10 15
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 3 Oct, 14:36 UTC.
  2. Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Arab News.
  3. Second region: Americas, with CTV News.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 17:23 UTC.
  5. Last article: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 hours

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The 10 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

27%46%18%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 27%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 46%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 18%

First movers

  1. Anadolu Agency 3 Oct, 14:36 UTC
  2. Arab News +2h 48m
  3. CTV News +3h 24m
  4. HotNews +4h 7m
  5. Free Malaysia Today +7h 5m

Last to join

  1. Tagesschau 5 Oct, 12:06 UTC
  2. TVN24 4 Oct, 13:20 UTC
  3. Adevărul 4 Oct, 12:29 UTC
  4. Liberty Times 4 Oct, 08:02 UTC
  5. Kurier 4 Oct, 05:29 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 10 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Canada. Asia-Pacific 3: Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam. Europe 4: Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania. Middle East 2: 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
German, English, Polish, Romanian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 3 Oct 2026, 14:36 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 14:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 12:06 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 Europe, Greece. 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
0.27, 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
3 Oct 2026 141 5.52 5 5 5 5 4.0
4 Oct 2026 158 3.66 10 9 5 5 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 14:40 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 12:06 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CTV News Canada 3 Oct, 18:00 UTC
    Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Liberty Times Taiwan 4 Oct, 08:02 UTC
    希臘克里特島遭暴風雨侵襲 洪水成災撤離遊客
  • Tuoi Tre News Vietnam 4 Oct, 04:10 UTC
    Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 3 Oct, 21:41 UTC
    Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete

Europe 5 outlets

  • Tagesschau Germany 5 Oct, 12:06 UTC
    Nach tagelangen Regenfällen: Auf Kreta beginnen die Aufräumarbeiten
  • TVN24 Poland 4 Oct, 13:20 UTC
    Powodzie na Krecie. Najstarsi mieszkańcy nie pamiętają tak złej sytuacji
  • Adevărul Romania 4 Oct, 12:29 UTC
    Stare de urgență într-o insulă grecească unde românii obișnuiesc să-și facă vacanțele. Zeci de turiști au fost evacuați din hoteluri
  • Kurier Austria 4 Oct, 05:29 UTC
    Überschwemmungen auf Kreta: Touristen evakuiert
  • HotNews Romania 3 Oct, 18:43 UTC
    Furtuni puternice în Creta. Zeci de oameni salvați din mașini și locuințe. Opt muncitori, blocați în defileul Samaria

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 3 Oct, 17:23 UTC
    Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 3 Oct, 14:36 UTC
    Severe storms hit Crete, forcing evacuations
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