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Middle East / Iran · Shipping & Trade

Iran attacks tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Rank
Running
37h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
11
Regions
4
Countries
8
Languages
5

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Daily Sabah Turkey · English 4 Oct, 09:32 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Français (1) · Melayu (1) · Русский (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 38 hours.

5 10 15
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Le Figaro, 4 Oct, 08:21 UTC.
  2. Second country: Germany, with Die Zeit.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 4 Oct, 08:21 UTC.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Daily Sabah.
  5. Now: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

38 of 38 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

27%37%18%

  • Americas 3 outlets · 1 country · 27%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 37%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 1 country · 18%
  • International 1 outlet · 9%

First movers

  1. Le Figaro 4 Oct, 08:21 UTC
  2. Die Zeit +4m
  3. Daily Sabah +1h 10m
  4. Maritime Executive +10h 53m
  5. Seatrade Maritime +19h 54m

Latest arrivals

  1. gCaptain 5 Oct, 15:02 UTC
  2. INTLMiddle East Eye 5 Oct, 14:44 UTC
  3. New York Times 5 Oct, 13:22 UTC
  4. Utusan Malaysia 5 Oct, 13:15 UTC
  5. Kommersant 5 Oct, 11:54 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Oil tankers attacked in Hormuz Strait off Oman, 1 to 3 Oct 2026, 45 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 8 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 11 outlets, 1 state-owned, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 4: France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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
German, English, French, Malay, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Le Figaro, 4 Oct 2026, 08:21 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 08:30 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 15:02 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
1.50, 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 Oil tankers attacked in Hormuz Strait off Oman. 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
4 Oct 2026 180 3.32 4 4 4 4 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 08:30 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 15:02 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • gCaptain United States 5 Oct, 15:02 UTC
    More Tankers Hit in Hormuz as IRGC Orders Ship to Turn Back
  • New York Times United States 5 Oct, 13:22 UTC
    Burst of Attacks in Gulf Heightens Fears Over Fragile Energy Trade
  • Maritime Executive United States 4 Oct, 19:14 UTC
    Iran Keeps Up Pace of Strikes With Attack on Brand New LR2 Tanker

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 5 Oct, 13:15 UTC
    Kapal tangki patah balik selepas diancam Iran

Europe 4 outlets

  • Kommersant Russia 5 Oct, 11:54 UTC
    КСИР развернул танкер при попытке пройти через Ормузский пролив
  • Seatrade Maritime United Kingdom 5 Oct, 07:11 UTC
    Product tanker attacked in Red Sea as hostilities escalate
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Dynacom newbuild among at least four tankers attacked in Hormuz 5 Oct, 04:16 UTC
  • Die Zeit Germany 4 Oct, 08:26 UTC
    Iran-Krieg: Tanker in der Straße von Hormus angegriffen
  • Le Figaro France 4 Oct, 08:21 UTC
    Un tanker attaqué dans le détroit d'Ormuz

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 5 Oct, 10:54 UTC
    Iran’s Revolutionary Guards order tanker to turn back in Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO
  • Daily Sabah Turkey 4 Oct, 09:32 UTC
    Tanker hit in Hormuz as Iran warns no military solution to end war

International 1 outlet

  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 5 Oct, 14:44 UTC
    IRGC turns back tanker in Strait of Hormuz
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