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Scientists predicted doomsday on November 13 2026

Rank
Ran
39h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
6
Regions
4
Countries
6
Languages
6

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 1 Oct, 11:26 UTC

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Read it also in Español (1) · Indonesia (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Türkçe (1) · Українська (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 40 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Infobae, 30 Sept, 21:52 UTC.
  2. Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
  3. Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 2 Oct, 12:52 UTC.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

40 of 40 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%33%33%17%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

  1. Infobae 30 Sept, 21:52 UTC
  2. The Independent +13h 34m
  3. Unian +16h 41m
  4. Thanh Niên +30h 4m
  5. Sözcü +39h

Last to join

  1. Media Indonesia 2 Oct, 13:39 UTC
  2. Sözcü 2 Oct, 12:52 UTC
  3. Thanh Niên 2 Oct, 03:57 UTC
  4. Unian 1 Oct, 14:33 UTC
  5. The Independent 1 Oct, 11:26 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 2: Indonesia, Vietnam. Europe 2: Ukraine, United Kingdom. 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, Spanish, Indonesian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Infobae, 30 Sept 2026, 21:52 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 22:10 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 13:39 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 International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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.
Chain
Continued by Fizičar pre šest decenija zapisao da je "smak sveta" 13. novembra 2026, a evo šta će "biti uzrok"; Naučnici 1960. predvideli da će petak, 13. novembar 2026, biti „Sudnji dan“: Koliko danas njihova teorija pije vodu?. 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
2 Oct 2026 346 3.30 6 6 3 3 4.0

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Started 30 Sept, 22:10 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 13:39 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 30 Sept, 21:52 UTC
    Los científicos que predijeron el “fin del mundo” para el 13 de noviembre de 2026: la historia detrás de la ecuación

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Media Indonesia Indonesia 2 Oct, 13:39 UTC
    Mengapa Ilmuwan pada 1960 Prediksi Kiamat 13 November 2026?
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 2 Oct, 03:57 UTC
    Các nhà khoa học năm 1960 từng dự báo thứ sáu ngày 13 năm nay là 'tận thế'

Europe 2 outlets

  • Unian Ukraine 1 Oct, 14:33 UTC
    13 листопада 2026 року може стати кінцем світу: що передбачили вчені 66 років тому
  • The Independent United Kingdom 1 Oct, 11:26 UTC
    Scientists in 1960 predicted Friday 13 November 2026 will be ‘Doomsday’

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Sözcü Turkey 2 Oct, 12:52 UTC
    66 yıl önce 'Kıyamet Günü' için tarih verdiler: 13 Kasım 2026 Cuma günü ne olacak?
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