Asia-Pacific / Thailand · Environment

Severe flooding hits Bangkok, affecting hundreds of thousands

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 47
Regions: 5
Countries: 32
Languages: 16

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 28 Sept, 05:58 UTC

The earliest of 19 English reports

Read it also in Español (4) · +14 languages

Read at The Independent

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Dân Trí, 28 Sept, 04:10 UTC.
Second country: Indonesia, with Media Indonesia.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Fastest hour: +7 outlets from 28 Sept, 07:06 UTC.
Last article: 47 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 32 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%40%32%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 4%
Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 19 outlets · 12 countries · 40%
Europe 15 outlets · 9 countries · 32%
Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 11%

First movers

Dân Trí 28 Sept, 04:10 UTC
Media Indonesia +1h 23m
VOV +1h 40m
The Independent +1h 49m
The Business Standard +1h 55m

Last to join

Prachatai English 29 Sept, 16:56 UTC
NU.nl 29 Sept, 09:36 UTC
iDNES 29 Sept, 09:32 UTC
La Jornada 29 Sept, 09:07 UTC
Interfax 29 Sept, 08:34 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Bangkok declared disaster zone after severe flooding and heavy rain, 26 to 28 Sept 2026, 134 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 47 outlets in 32 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 47 outlets, 9 state-owned, 2 public-service, 36 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Republic of the Congo, South Africa. Americas 5: Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 12: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 9: Cyprus, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Israel, Oman, 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, Czech, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Dân Trí, 28 Sept 2026, 04:10 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 05:00 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 03:24 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, Thailand. 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.
Chain: Continues Bangkok declared disaster zone after severe flooding and heavy rain. Continued by At least 22 dead in Thailand flooding affecting millions; Flooding in Thailand disrupts factories and airport operations; Thailand braces for heavy rain as floods ease. 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

28 Sept 2026 24 34.29 34 25 34 25 3.3

29 Sept 2026 35 26.29 47 32 18 17 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 139 8.14 47 32 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 05:00 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 03:24 UTC

Covered by 47 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	24	34.29	34	25	34	25	3.3
29 Sept 2026	35	26.29	47	32	18	17	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	139	8.14	47	32	1	1	4.0

Covered by 47 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 6 outlets

Asia-Pacific 19 outlets

Europe 15 outlets

Middle East 5 outlets