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Major flooding in Thailand kills dozens, affects millions

Rank
Ran
45h
Updated
3d ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
5

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Infobae Argentina · Spanish 30 Sept, 05:30 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Русский (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, 6 after 46 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Infobae, 30 Sept, 05:30 UTC.
  2. Second country: Switzerland, with SRF.
  3. Second region: Europe, with SRF.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 05:30 UTC.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%33%50%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. Infobae 30 Sept, 05:30 UTC
  2. SRF +2m
  3. Die Zeit +7m
  4. VOV +10h 4m
  5. China News Service +17h 52m

Last to join

  1. Kommersant 1 Oct, 00:06 UTC
  2. China News Service 30 Sept, 23:23 UTC
  3. VOV 30 Sept, 15:34 UTC
  4. Die Zeit 30 Sept, 05:37 UTC
  5. SRF 30 Sept, 05:32 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Severe flooding hits Bangkok, affecting hundreds of thousands, 28 to 30 Sept 2026, 47 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 2: China, Vietnam. Europe 3: Germany, Russia, Switzerland. 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, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Infobae, 30 Sept 2026, 05:30 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 05:40 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 03:07 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 Asia-Pacific, Thailand. 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 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 Severe flooding hits Bangkok, affecting hundreds of thousands. Continued by Itamaraty monitora brasileiros em 4 países da Ásia após enchentes e mortes. 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
30 Sept 2026 196 6.40 5 5 5 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 05:40 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 03:07 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 30 Sept, 05:30 UTC
    Ascienden a 22 los muertos por las inundaciones en Tailandia

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • VOV Vietnam 2 Oct, 03:07 UTC
    Thái Lan căng mình ứng phó lũ lụt trước đợt mưa mới
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    • Lũ lụt lịch sử tại Thái Lan: 40 người tử vong, gần 3 triệu người chịu ảnh hưởng 30 Sept, 15:34 UTC
  • China News Service China 30 Sept, 23:23 UTC
    泰国洪灾已致24人遇难

Europe 3 outlets

  • Kommersant Russia 1 Oct, 00:06 UTC
    Число жертв наводнения в Таиланде выросло до 40
  • Die Zeit Germany 30 Sept, 05:37 UTC
    Hochwasser in Thailand: Mindestens 22 Menschen nach Überschwemmungen in Thailand gestorben
  • SRF Switzerland 30 Sept, 05:32 UTC
    Überschwemmungen in Thailand – 2.6 Millionen Menschen von Hochwasser betroffen
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