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One dead as severe floods hit Greek island of Crete

Rank
Ran
28h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
2
Countries
8
Languages
7

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Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 1 Oct, 15:35 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (3) · Dansk (1) · Français (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Magyar (1) · Polski (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 28 hours.

5 10
0h 6h 12h 18h 24h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: 15min, 1 Oct, 14:12 UTC.
  2. Second country: Austria, with Kurier.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 1 Oct, 14:12 UTC.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Arab News.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

29 of 29 hours

Earlier Later

The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

90%

  • Europe 9 outlets · 7 countries · 90%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%

First movers

  1. 15min 1 Oct, 14:12 UTC
  2. Kurier +0m
  3. ORF +2m
  4. Arab News +1h 24m
  5. Le Figaro +3h 14m

Last to join

  1. Index 2 Oct, 18:21 UTC
  2. Der Standard 2 Oct, 08:30 UTC
  3. TVN24 2 Oct, 05:13 UTC
  4. DR 1 Oct, 22:35 UTC
  5. The Independent 1 Oct, 21:28 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 8 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 2 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 7: Austria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. 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
Danish, German, English, French, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish.
Timeline
Earliest article 15min, 1 Oct 2026, 14:12 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 18:21 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, Greece. 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
1 Oct 2026 159 7.48 7 6 7 6 4.0
2 Oct 2026 162 7.05 10 8 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 14:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 18:21 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Europe 9 outlets

  • Index Hungary 2 Oct, 18:21 UTC
    Halálos vihar csapott le a görög turistaparadicsomokra, vörös riasztást adtak ki
  • Der Standard Austria 2 Oct, 08:30 UTC
    Unwetter traf Ägäis mit voller Wucht
  • TVN24 Poland 2 Oct, 05:13 UTC
    Załamanie pogody na Krecie. Nie żyje rolnik
  • DR Denmark 1 Oct, 22:35 UTC
    En person er død efter oversvømmelser på Kreta
  • The Independent United Kingdom 1 Oct, 22:19 UTC
    Crete: One dead and multiple people injured after severe thunderstorms trigger flash floods
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Severe storms trigger flash floods in Crete with one dead and vehicles submerged 1 Oct, 21:28 UTC
  • Le Figaro France 1 Oct, 17:25 UTC
    Grèce : un éleveur de 79 ans retrouvé mort après de fortes précipitations en Crète
  • ORF Austria 1 Oct, 14:14 UTC
    Ein Toter bei Überflutungen auf Kreta
  • Kurier Austria 1 Oct, 14:12 UTC
    Überflutungen auf Kreta und anderen griechischen Inseln: Ein Toter
  • 15min Lithuania 1 Oct, 14:12 UTC
    Graikijos Kretos saloje per potvynius žuvo žmogus

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 15:35 UTC
    One dead as floods hit Greek island of Crete
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