Middle East / Iran · Shipping & Trade

Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz amid escalating tensions

Rank
Running: 40h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 30
Regions: 4
Countries: 19
Languages: 11

Middle East Eye International · English 4 Oct, 09:07 UTC

The earliest of 11 English reports

Read it also in العربية (5) · +9 languages

Read at Middle East Eye

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Proto Thema, 4 Oct, 07:59 UTC.
Second country: Iran, with Etemad.
Second region: Middle East, with Etemad.
Fastest hour: +10 outlets from 4 Oct, 08:16 UTC.
Now: 30 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 19 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

13%37%44%

Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
Europe 11 outlets · 8 countries · 37%
Middle East 13 outlets · 7 countries · 44%
International 1 outlet · 3%

First movers

Proto Thema 4 Oct, 07:59 UTC
Etemad +17m
Le Figaro +23m
HotNews +24m
ERT +24m

Latest arrivals

Shafaq News 5 Oct, 20:53 UTC
TASS 5 Oct, 20:07 UTC
Interfax 5 Oct, 18:30 UTC
Infobae 5 Oct, 17:46 UTC
gCaptain 5 Oct, 15:02 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Projectile hits tanker in Strait of Hormuz, 1 to 2 Oct 2026, 3 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 30 outlets in 19 countries, across 4 regions, 3 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 30 outlets, 5 state-owned, 1 public-service, 24 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 8: Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Romania, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Swedish.
Timeline: Earliest article Proto Thema, 4 Oct 2026, 07:59 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 08:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 22:52 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, Iran. Topic Shipping & trade. 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: 2.04, 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 Projectile hits tanker in Strait of Hormuz. Merged from 3 stories Iran attacks tanker in Strait of Hormuz; Oil tanker hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz; Tanker hit by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz. 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

4 Oct 2026 46 9.21 14 9 14 9 4.1

5 Oct 2026 242 3.75 30 19 18 13 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 08:00 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 22:52 UTC

Merged from 3 stories

Iran attacks tanker in Strait of Hormuz11 outlets · 8 countries · started 4 Oct, 08:21 UTC
Oil tanker hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz19 outlets · 13 countries · started 4 Oct, 08:16 UTC
Tanker hit by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz2 outlets · 1 country · started 4 Oct, 07:59 UTC

Covered by 30 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
4 Oct 2026	46	9.21	14	9	14	9	4.1
5 Oct 2026	242	3.75	30	19	18	13	4.1

Merged from 3 stories

Covered by 30 outlets

Americas 4 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 11 outlets

Middle East 13 outlets

International 1 outlet