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Strong explosions heard in Yemen capital Sanaa

Rank
Ran
41h
Updated
2d ago
Final
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
5

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INTLMiddle East Eye International · English 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · Français (1) · Svenska (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 42 hours.

5 10
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Middle East Eye, 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC.
  2. Second region: Europe, with ERT.
  3. Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Gulf News.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 3 Oct, 10:15 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

42 of 42 hours

Earlier Later

The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

22%45%22%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 45%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • International 1 outlet · 11%

First movers

  1. INTLMiddle East Eye 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC
  2. ERT +50m
  3. Gulf News +3h 5m
  4. An-Nahar +36h 53m
  5. Aftonbladet +37h 1m

Last to join

  1. Africanews 3 Oct, 15:13 UTC
  2. France 24 3 Oct, 14:31 UTC
  3. Le Figaro 3 Oct, 10:40 UTC
  4. Mosaïque FM 3 Oct, 10:39 UTC
  5. Aftonbladet 3 Oct, 10:22 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 2 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Republic of the Congo, Tunisia. Europe 3: France, Greece, Sweden. Middle East 2: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Greek, English, French, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article Middle East Eye, 1 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 21:30 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 15:13 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 Middle East, Yemen. Topic Conflict & security. 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
3 Oct 2026 149 5.21 9 8 7 6 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 21:30 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 15:13 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Africanews Republic of the Congo 3 Oct, 15:13 UTC
    Loud explosions heard Yemeni capital amid reports of Saudi strikes
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 3 Oct, 10:39 UTC
    انفجارات عنيفة تهز العاصمة اليمنية

Europe 4 outlets

  • France 24 France 3 Oct, 14:31 UTC
    Houthis blame Saudi air strikes as loud blasts rock Yemen's capital Sanaa
  • Le Figaro France 3 Oct, 10:40 UTC
    Fortes explosions entendues dans la capitale yéménite, aux mains des combattants Houthis
  • Aftonbladet Sweden 3 Oct, 10:22 UTC
    Kraftiga explosioner i Jemens huvudstad
  • ERT Greece 1 Oct, 22:12 UTC
    Υεμένη: Ισχυρές εκρήξεις στην Σαναά

Middle East 2 outlets

  • An-Nahar Lebanon 3 Oct, 10:15 UTC
    "أ ف ب": سماع دوي انفجارات عنيفة في العاصمة اليمنية صنعاء
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 2 Oct, 00:26 UTC
    Strong explosions heard in Yemen capital: AFP journalist

International 1 outlet

  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 3 Oct, 10:37 UTC
    Blasts heard in Yemen's capital Sanaa
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • Houthis, AFP say explosions heard in Sannaa 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC
    • Houthis, AFP say explosions heard in Sanaa 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC
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