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7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama

Rank: –
Ran: 47h
Updated: 9h ago
Closed
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Merged into Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, state of emergency declared

El Observador (CR) Costa Rica · Spanish 9 Oct, 18:12 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Deutsch (1)

Read at El Observador (CR)

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Observador (CR), 9 Oct, 18:12 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 18:12 UTC.
Second region: Europe, with Junge Welt.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 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 6 outlets · 4 countries · 86%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

El Observador (CR) 9 Oct, 18:12 UTC
Infobae +57m
Diario Extra +1h 14m
La Nación (CR) +2h 18m
RPP +24h 17m

Last to join

Junge Welt 11 Oct, 18:00 UTC
Crítica 11 Oct, 15:35 UTC
RPP 10 Oct, 18:30 UTC
La Nación (CR) 9 Oct, 20:31 UTC
Diario Extra 9 Oct, 19:27 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. 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 4: Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru. Europe 1: Germany. 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, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article El Observador (CR), 9 Oct 2026, 18:12 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 18:20 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 18:00 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, Costa Rica. 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 Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, state of emergency declared, 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: Merged into Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, state of emergency declared. 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, 18:20 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 18:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Junge Welt Germany 11 Oct, 18:00 UTC
Panama: Auf einen Blick
Crítica Panama 11 Oct, 16:27 UTC
El meneo sigue: Panamá registra 256 réplicas tras terremoto de 7.5
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- Terremoto sacude a Panamá y deja una pregunta: ¿estamos preparados? 11 Oct, 15:35 UTC
RPP Peru 10 Oct, 18:30 UTC
Terremoto en Panamá: ¿cuál es la situación del país un día después del fuerte sismo de magnitud 7.7?
Diario Extra Costa Rica 10 Oct, 06:00 UTC
Terremoto de Panamá podría generar más réplicas perceptibles en C.R.
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- ¿Por qué tembló tanto tiempo en Costa Rica tras el terremoto de Panamá? 9 Oct, 19:27 UTC
La Nación (CR) Costa Rica 9 Oct, 21:47 UTC
¿Por qué el temblor de 7,7 de Panamá provocó sensación de mareo a muchos en Costa Rica? Esta es la explicación
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- Otro temblor sacudió Costa Rica la tarde de este viernes 9 Oct, 20:31 UTC
Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 21:23 UTC
Por qué el terremoto en Panamá se sintió durante varios segundos y las hipótesis sobre su origen tectónico
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- Dos nuevos sismos de hasta magnitud 6,9 sacuden Panamá y vuelven a sentirse en Costa Rica este viernes 9 Oct, 21:11 UTC
- Terremoto en Panamá se sintió durante varios segundos en Costa Rica: reportan movimientos prolongados y sensación de balanceo 9 Oct, 19:10 UTC
El Observador (CR) Costa Rica 9 Oct, 18:12 UTC
Temblor de magnitud 7,6 sacude Costa Rica: reportes llegan desde varias provincias