Asia-Pacific / Thailand · Environment

Severe floods devastate Bangkok and Thai provinces

Rank
Ran: 33h
Updated: 42h ago
Closed
Outlets: 6
Regions: 3
Countries: 6
Languages: 5

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 3 Oct, 02:00 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · +3 languages

Read at The Guardian

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Guardian, 3 Oct, 02:00 UTC.
Second country: Iran, with Khabar Online.
Second region: Middle East, with Khabar Online.
Last article: 6 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

50%17%33%

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 50%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%

First movers

The Guardian 3 Oct, 02:00 UTC
Khabar Online +7h 9m
Thanh Niên +11h 42m
South China Morning Post +21h 59m
Sözcü +30h 42m

Last to join

Media Indonesia 4 Oct, 12:07 UTC
Sözcü 4 Oct, 08:42 UTC
South China Morning Post 4 Oct, 00:00 UTC
Thanh Niên 3 Oct, 13:43 UTC
Khabar Online 3 Oct, 09:10 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Thailand floods disrupt Bangkok, affecting factories and airport operations, 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2026, 7 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 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: Asia-Pacific 3: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Iran, 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, Persian, Indonesian, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Guardian, 3 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 12:07 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: 0.00, as of now. 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 Thailand floods disrupt Bangkok, affecting factories and airport operations. Continued by Why Thailand’s devastating floods have sparked fury in Bangkok; ฝนถล่มท่วมทะลักเมือง ฟ้าผ่า ศก.-สะเทือนชีวิตคนกรุง. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 3 Oct, 02:40 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 12:07 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Covered by 6 outlets

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

Europe 1 outlet

Middle East 2 outlets