Americas / Chile · Environment

Flash floods strike Santiago with vehicles swept away

Rank: 18
Running: 5h
Updated: 27m ago
Momentum: +36%
Outlets: 14
Regions: 1
Countries: 7
Languages: 2

Bloomberg United States · English 8 Oct, 21:32 UTC

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: La Tercera, 8 Oct, 20:21 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Clarín.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 8 Oct, 21:08 UTC.
Now: 14 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Americas 14 outlets · 7 countries · 100%

First movers

La Tercera 8 Oct, 20:21 UTC
Clarín +47m
La Nación (AR) +1h 9m
Bloomberg +1h 11m
RPP +1h 15m

Latest arrivals

El País (UY) 9 Oct, 01:43 UTC
El Observador (CR) 9 Oct, 00:59 UTC
Perfil 9 Oct, 00:45 UTC
El Comercio (EC) 9 Oct, 00:12 UTC
Primicias 8 Oct, 23:40 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 14 outlets in 7 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 14 outlets, 14 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 7: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, United States, Uruguay. 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: English, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article La Tercera, 8 Oct 2026, 20:21 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 02:21 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, Chile. 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: 6.91, 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

8 Oct 2026 109 6.32 9 5 9 5 4.6

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Started 8 Oct, 21:20 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 02:21 UTC

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El Comercio Peru 9 Oct, 02:21 UTC
Aluvión deja al menos seis heridos y calles inundadas de barro en Santiago de Chile
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- Lluvias intensas causan aluvión que arrastra autos y buses en el este de Santiago de Chile 8 Oct, 22:48 UTC
- Emergencia en Chile: Aluvión en zona residencial de Las Condes arrastra vehículos | VIDEOS 8 Oct, 21:50 UTC
El País (UY) Uruguay 9 Oct, 01:43 UTC
Lluvias intensas causan un aluvión de agua y barro que arrastra autos en el este de Santiago de Chile
El Observador (CR) Costa Rica 9 Oct, 00:59 UTC
Video capta impresionante aluvión que deja seis heridos y calles inundadas de barro en Santiago de Chile
Perfil Argentina 9 Oct, 00:45 UTC
Un violento aluvión arrasó Chile y el Gobierno declaró la zona de catástrofe
Clarín Argentina 9 Oct, 00:23 UTC
Por qué se originó el aluvión en Santiago de Chile: los factores detrás de la marea de barro que bajó de la quebrada a las calles
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- Las imágenes del aluvión en Santiago de Chile: así quedó la ciudad tras el fuerte temporal 8 Oct, 22:41 UTC
- Aluvión en Santiago de Chile: las calles se convirtieron en ríos y el barro arrastró autos y colectivos 8 Oct, 21:08 UTC
RPP Peru 9 Oct, 00:14 UTC
Chile: bus de transporte público con pasajeros fue arrastrado por fuerte aluvión en Santiago [VIDEO]
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- Chile: así quedó la comuna de Las Condes tras aluvión que arrastró vehículos y buses [FOTOS] 8 Oct, 22:30 UTC
- Un fuerte aluvión arrastra autos en una de las zonas más exclusivas de Santiago de Chile 8 Oct, 21:36 UTC
El Comercio (EC) Ecuador 9 Oct, 00:12 UTC
Aluvión en Chile arrastra buses y autos
Primicias Ecuador 8 Oct, 23:40 UTC
Aluvión en Chile: Torrenciales lluvias arrastran carros y buses en una comuna de Santiago
BioBioChile Chile 8 Oct, 23:04 UTC
VIDEOS | Así se ven desde el aire las consecuencias del fuerte aluvión en Las Condes
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- Concreto desplazado y autos destruidos: reportan daños en inmediaciones de Mall Paseo Los Domínicos 8 Oct, 22:55 UTC
Exitosa Peru 8 Oct, 22:41 UTC
Emergencia en Chile: desborde de canal y lluvias dejan severos estragos en Las Condes
La República (PE) Peru 8 Oct, 22:17 UTC
Aluvión golpea Santiago de Chile y deja calles inundadas, vehículos arrastrados y centros médicos afectados
Bloomberg United States 8 Oct, 21:32 UTC
Flash Floods Stun Affluent Neighborhoods in Chilean Capital
La Nación (AR) Argentina 8 Oct, 21:31 UTC
Una fuerte correntada arrastró autos y micros tras el desborde de un canal en Chile
La Tercera Chile 8 Oct, 21:12 UTC
El dramático momento en que el aluvión sorprende a pasajeros en un bus Red
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- Minuto a minuto: sigue el avance de aluvión provocado por las lluvias en Las Condes 8 Oct, 20:52 UTC
- Lluvias provocan aluvión en Las Condes: registros captan a vehículos siendo arrastrados por el agua 8 Oct, 20:21 UTC