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Nepal identifies flood victims through DNA testing

Rank
Ran: 21h
Updated: 3d ago
Closed
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 1

The Japan Times Japan · English 2 Oct, 02:48 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

The only language so far · English, 5 reports

Read at The Japan Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Japan Times, 2 Oct, 02:48 UTC.
Second country: Pakistan, with Dawn.
Second region: Africa, with IOL.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 2 Oct, 05:12 UTC.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 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 · 20%
Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 80%

First movers

The Japan Times 2 Oct, 02:48 UTC
Dawn +2h 25m
IOL +2h 44m
Malay Mail +20h 12m
Republica +21h 42m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 4: Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article The Japan Times, 2 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 00:30 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 Asia-Pacific, Nepal. 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 now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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

2 Oct 2026 237 4.95 4 4 4 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 03:10 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 00:30 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

IOL South Africa 2 Oct, 05:32 UTC
Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead as over 5000 still missing

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

Republica Nepal 3 Oct, 00:30 UTC
Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead 3 Oct, 00:30 UTC
Malay Mail Malaysia 2 Oct, 23:00 UTC
Buried, numbered, waiting to be named: Nepal’s grim DNA search after the floods
Dawn Pakistan 2 Oct, 05:12 UTC
Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead
The Japan Times Japan 2 Oct, 02:48 UTC
Nepal’s grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead