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Mount Etna volcanic ash closes Catania airport for third day

Rank
Ran
2d
Updated
7d ago
Final
Outlets
41
Regions
5
Countries
26
Languages
19

+16

Where it travelled

The 26 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

68%15%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 3 outlets · 3 countries · 7%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 7%
  • Europe 28 outlets · 15 countries · 68%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 4 countries · 15%

The figures

Coverage
41 outlets in 26 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 41 outlets, 3 state-owned, 8 public-service, 30 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Tunisia. Americas 3: Argentina, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 3: Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand. Europe 15: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article ANSA, 26 Sept 2026, 07:29 UTC. First seen 26 Sept 2026, 07:40 UTC. Last seen 28 Sept 2026, 09:01 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, Italy. 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
11.02, at the end of the last day measured. 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 Mount Etna ash forces flight restrictions at Catania airport. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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
26 Sept 2026 49 13.33 26 16 26 16 3.3
27 Sept 2026 37 21.40 34 21 14 10 3.3
28 Sept 2026 86 11.02 41 26 6 4 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 26 Sept, 07:40 UTC · Updated 28 Sept, 09:01 UTC

Covered by 41 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • La Presse de Tunisie Tunisia

Americas 3 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • El Comercio Peru
  • Infobae Argentina

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Liberty Times Taiwan
  • Thairath Thailand
  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia

Europe 28 outlets

  • ANSA Italy
  • Dagbladet Norway
  • Die Zeit Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • DR Denmark
  • ERT Greece
  • G4Media Romania
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium
  • HotNews Romania
  • Il Post Italy
  • Il Sole 24 Ore Italy
  • Kurier Austria
  • La Repubblica Italy
  • Le Soir Belgium
  • Lrytas Lithuania
  • N1 Serbia
  • NOS Netherlands
  • ORF Austria
  • Politis Cyprus
  • Proto Thema Greece
  • Rai News Italy
  • RTP Portugal
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • TGCOM24 Italy
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland
  • VG Norway
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 6 outlets

  • Al Ittihad United Arab Emirates
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Hürriyet Turkey
  • SANA Syria

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