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Panama President calls for calm after 7.7 magnitude earthquake

Rank: –
Running: 7h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 6
Languages: 3

Merged into Major earthquake strikes Panama, regional leaders offer aid

CNN Brasil Brazil · Portuguese 9 Oct, 19:41 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Español (5) · +1 language

Read at CNN Brasil

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CNN Brasil, 9 Oct, 19:41 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 19:41 UTC.
Second region: Europe, with ERT.
Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 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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Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 86%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

CNN Brasil 9 Oct, 19:41 UTC
Infobae +21m
El Nacional +3h 8m
El Comercio +4h 15m
ERT +4h 19m

Latest arrivals

Semana 10 Oct, 01:06 UTC
Exitosa 10 Oct, 00:57 UTC
ERT 10 Oct, 00:00 UTC
El Comercio 9 Oct, 23:56 UTC
El Nacional 9 Oct, 22:49 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela. Europe 1: Greece. 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: Greek, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article CNN Brasil, 9 Oct 2026, 19:41 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 01:06 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 Major earthquake strikes Panama, regional leaders offer aid, 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 Major earthquake strikes Panama, regional leaders offer aid. 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.
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

9 Oct 2026 337 2.96 3 3 3 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 20:30 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 01:06 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Semana Colombia 10 Oct, 01:06 UTC
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Exitosa Peru 10 Oct, 00:57 UTC
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ERT Greece 10 Oct, 00:00 UTC
Σεισμός στον Παναμά: Ο πρόεδρος Μουλίνο μιλά για «μεγάλη καταστροφή»
El Comercio Peru 9 Oct, 23:56 UTC
El presidente de Panamá visita una de las aéreas más afectadas por el terremoto
Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 23:30 UTC
El presidente de Panamá visita una de las aéreas más afectadas por el terremoto
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- Presidente de Panamá pide mantener la "calma" tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,7 9 Oct, 20:02 UTC
El Nacional Venezuela 9 Oct, 22:49 UTC
Presidente de Panamá pide mantener la calma tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,7
CNN Brasil Brazil 9 Oct, 19:41 UTC
Presidente do Panamá pede calma após forte terremoto de magnitude 7,7