Middle East / Oman · Shipping & Trade

Oil tankers attacked in Hormuz Strait off Oman

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 45
Regions: 5
Countries: 32
Languages: 20

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 1 Oct, 19:57 UTC.
Second region: International, with Middle East Eye.
Second country: Russia, with Interfax.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC.
Last article: 45 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 32 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

13%18%45%20%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 7 countries · 18%
Europe 20 outlets · 14 countries · 45%
Middle East 9 outlets · 4 countries · 20%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

Anadolu Agency 1 Oct, 19:57 UTC
Middle East Eye +19m
Interfax +47m
TGCOM24 +54m
Shafaq News +1h 18m

Last to join

Online Khabar 3 Oct, 13:34 UTC
Marine Insight 3 Oct, 11:43 UTC
ARY News 3 Oct, 08:20 UTC
Der Spiegel 3 Oct, 07:17 UTC
TVNET 3 Oct, 05:30 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Multiple tankers hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 21 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 45 outlets in 32 countries, across 5 regions, 3 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 45 outlets, 4 state-owned, 3 public-service, 38 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 5: Argentina, Chile, Mexico, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 7: China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam. Europe 14: Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 1 Oct 2026, 19:57 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 19:00 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 Middle East, Oman. Topic Shipping & trade. 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.
Chain: Continues Multiple tankers hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz. Continued by Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz; Explosion reported on oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

1 Oct 2026 70 15.05 13 12 13 12 4.0

2 Oct 2026 15 33.55 32 25 25 21 4.0

3 Oct 2026 17 29.63 45 32 20 15 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 20:10 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 19:00 UTC

Covered by 45 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
1 Oct 2026	70	15.05	13	12	13	12	4.0
2 Oct 2026	15	33.55	32	25	25	21	4.0
3 Oct 2026	17	29.63	45	32	20	15	4.0

Covered by 45 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 6 outlets

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

Europe 20 outlets

Middle East 9 outlets

International 1 outlet