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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Panama

Rank: –
Running: 13h
Updated: 5h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 21
Regions: 3
Countries: 11
Languages: 5

Merged into Major 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Panama

Emisoras Unidas Guatemala · Spanish 9 Oct, 06:43 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Português (3) · +3 languages

Read at Emisoras Unidas

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Emisoras Unidas, 9 Oct, 06:43 UTC.
Second country: Lebanon, with An-Nahar.
Second region: Middle East, with An-Nahar.
Fastest hour: +13 outlets from 9 Oct, 18:02 UTC.
Now: 21 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

86%

Americas 18 outlets · 8 countries · 86%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 9%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 5%

First movers

Emisoras Unidas 9 Oct, 06:43 UTC
An-Nahar +11h 19m
El Tiempo +11h 23m
Exitosa +11h 24m
Semana +11h 26m

Latest arrivals

Republika 9 Oct, 23:20 UTC
Estadão 9 Oct, 23:02 UTC
La Nación (CR) 9 Oct, 21:18 UTC
G1 9 Oct, 21:10 UTC
Liberty Times 9 Oct, 19:26 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 21 outlets in 11 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 21 outlets, 21 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 2: Indonesia, Taiwan. 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, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Emisoras Unidas, 9 Oct 2026, 06:43 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 18:30 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 02:31 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, Panama. 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 Major 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Panama, 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 Major 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Panama. 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, 18:30 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 02:31 UTC

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