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Americas / Peru · Environment

Magnitude 4.2 earthquake strikes Arequipa region in Peru

Rank
Ran
47h
Updated
42h ago
Closed
Outlets
4
Regions
1
Countries
2
Languages
1

RPP Peru · Spanish 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 4 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 48 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: RPP, 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC.
  2. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 12:12 UTC.
  4. Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

48 of 48 hours

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The 2 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 4 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. RPP 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC
  2. Infobae +26h 7m
  3. El Comercio +27h
  4. La República (PE) +47h 54m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: 3.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Peru's Callao coast, 5 to 7 Oct 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 2 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Argentina, 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 RPP, 8 Oct 2026, 10:05 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 10:00 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, Peru. 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
0.00, 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.
Chain
Continues 3.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Peru's Callao coast. Continued by Two earthquakes shake southern Peru; magnitude 5.1 quake, no tsunami warning; Temblor en Ica: sismo de magnitud 4,5 remeció Nasca hoy, según el IGP. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 8 Oct, 10:20 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 10:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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  • La República (PE) Peru 10 Oct, 10:00 UTC
    Temblor hoy en Perú, sábado 10 de octubre: último sismo, magnitud y epicentro según el IGP
  • El Comercio Peru 9 Oct, 13:05 UTC
    Sismo en Arequipa hoy: IGP reportó un temblor de magnitud 4.2 cerca de Aplao
  • Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 12:12 UTC
    Temblor hoy en Perú EN VIVO: últimos sismos, epicentro y reporte del IGP del 9 de octubre de 2026
  • RPP Peru 9 Oct, 11:15 UTC
    Un sismo de magnitud 4.2 remeció la región Arequipa esta mañana
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • Un sismo de magnitud 3.7 remeció la región Amazonas esta madrugada 9 Oct, 10:15 UTC
    • Un sismo de magnitud 3.5 remeció la región Arequipa esta madrugada 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC
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