Americas / Panama · Environment

Magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Panama injures 27, damages hundreds of buildings

Rank: –
Running: 36h
Updated: 9h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 11
Regions: 3
Countries: 9
Languages: 2

Merged into Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, causing damage and aftershocks

TVN Panamá Panama · Spanish 9 Oct, 23:27 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Português (4)

Read at TVN Panamá

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: TVN Panamá, 9 Oct, 23:27 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 23:27 UTC.
Second region: Europe, with RTP.
Now: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

73%18%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
Americas 8 outlets · 7 countries · 73%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 18%

First movers

TVN Panamá 9 Oct, 23:27 UTC
Infobae +13m
Diario Libre +10h
Hoy +14h 23m
RTP +15h 13m

Latest arrivals

Observador 10 Oct, 21:55 UTC
Diario Co Latino 10 Oct, 21:05 UTC
Gestión 10 Oct, 18:11 UTC
Expresso das Ilhas 10 Oct, 17:09 UTC
CNN Brasil 10 Oct, 16:36 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 11 outlets in 9 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 11 outlets, 1 public-service, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Cabo Verde. Americas 7: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama, Peru. Europe 1: Portugal. 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, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article TVN Panamá, 9 Oct 2026, 23:27 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 00:01 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 03:12 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 Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, causing damage and aftershocks, 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 Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, causing damage and aftershocks. 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 10 Oct, 00:01 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 03:12 UTC

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