Middle East / Iran · Shipping & Trade

Iranian Revolutionary Guard targets gas tanker in Hormuz Strait

Rank: –
Running: 45h
Updated: 44h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 2
Regions: 2
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

Merged into Oil supertanker explodes after hitting mine in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC says

An-Nahar Lebanon · Arabic 9 Oct, 14:27 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Arabic, 2 reports

Read at An-Nahar

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: An-Nahar, 9 Oct, 14:27 UTC.
Second country: Tunisia, with Mosaïque FM.
Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 14:27 UTC.
Now: 2 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 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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Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%

First movers

An-Nahar 9 Oct, 14:27 UTC
Mosaïque FM +58m

The figures

Coverage: 2 outlets in 2 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 2 outlets, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Tunisia. Middle East 1: Lebanon. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article An-Nahar, 9 Oct 2026, 14:27 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 14:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 15:25 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, Iran. 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 of its own. It was merged into Oil supertanker explodes after hitting mine in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC says, 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 Oil supertanker explodes after hitting mine in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC says. 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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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 14:30 UTC · Updated 15:25 UTC

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