Americas / Ecuador · Environment

Heavy rains cause flooding in Ecuador's Esmeraldas province

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 1
Countries: 1
Languages: 1

Expreso (EC) Ecuador · Spanish 29 Sept, 17:09 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 3 reports

Read at Expreso (EC)

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Expreso (EC), 29 Sept, 17:09 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 13:37 UTC.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The one country 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 3 outlets · 1 country · 100%

First movers

Expreso (EC) 29 Sept, 17:09 UTC
El Comercio (EC) +20h 28m
Primicias +21h 10m

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 1 country. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Ecuador. 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 Expreso (EC), 29 Sept 2026, 17:09 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 18:30 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 15:23 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, Ecuador. 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: Continued by Heavy rains cause flooding in coastal Ecuador towns. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 29 Sept, 18:30 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 15:23 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Americas 3 outlets

El Comercio (EC) Ecuador 1 Oct, 15:23 UTC
Ecuador registra 176 eventos por lluvias bajo alerta roja
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- Ocho ríos se desbordan en Esmeraldas y Guayas por las fuertes lluvias 30 Sept, 13:46 UTC
- El agua llega hasta el cuello en Quinindé y obliga a familias a evacuar 30 Sept, 13:37 UTC
Primicias Ecuador 1 Oct, 02:07 UTC
Lluvias en Esmeraldas desbordan ríos, aíslan comunidades y dejan cientos de familias afectadas
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- Quinindé sufre inundaciones en más de 10 sectores y Esmeraldas es la provincia con más desbordamiento de ríos 30 Sept, 14:19 UTC
Expreso (EC) Ecuador 29 Sept, 17:09 UTC
Lluvias golpean a Quinindé y Eloy Alfaro y dejan comunidades afectadas en Esmeraldas