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Major power outage closes Palace of Versailles to public

Rank
Running
17h
Updated
15h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
3
Countries
4
Languages
4

+0

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 6 Oct, 11:46 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Français (2) · Nederlands (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 18 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Le Soir, 6 Oct, 11:43 UTC.
  2. Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 6 Oct, 11:43 UTC.
  5. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 4 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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  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 60%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

  1. Le Soir 6 Oct, 11:43 UTC
  2. Anadolu Agency +4m
  3. Le Figaro +7m
  4. Het Laatste Nieuws +9m
  5. China News Service +2h 19m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 4 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 2 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: China. Europe 2: Belgium, France. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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, French, Dutch, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Le Soir, 6 Oct 2026, 11:43 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 11:50 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 14:02 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 Europe, France. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged not hard news. Shown, because similar stories were all judged hard news. 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
0.31, 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
6 Oct 2026 205 4.30 5 4 5 4 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 11:50 UTC · Updated 14:02 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • China News Service China 6 Oct, 14:02 UTC
    法国凡尔赛宫因大规模停电暂时关闭

Europe 3 outlets

  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 6 Oct, 11:51 UTC
    Kasteel van Versailles tijdelijk gesloten als gevolg van grote stroompanne
  • Le Figaro France 6 Oct, 11:50 UTC
    Une panne électrique d’ampleur frappe Versailles et ses environs, selon la préfecture des Yvelines
  • Le Soir Belgium 6 Oct, 11:43 UTC
    Le château de Versailles obligé de fermer temporairement ses portes

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 6 Oct, 11:46 UTC
    Versailles Palace closes to public amid major power outage
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