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Tanker hit by projectile near Strait of Hormuz

Rank
Ran: 18h
Updated: 3d ago
Final
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 1

An-Nahar Lebanon · Arabic 1 Oct, 23:17 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Arabic, 5 reports

Read at An-Nahar

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: An-Nahar, 1 Oct, 23:17 UTC.
Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Sky News Arabia.
Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 2 Oct, 17:16 UTC.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 80%

First movers

An-Nahar 1 Oct, 23:17 UTC
Sky News Arabia +17h
Al Sharq +18h
SANA +18h 8m
Mosaïque FM +18h 38m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Multiple tankers hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 21 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 1 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Tunisia. Middle East 4: Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, 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.
Timeline: Earliest article An-Nahar, 1 Oct 2026, 23:17 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 23:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 17:55 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 International. 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: 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 Multiple tankers hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz. 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

2 Oct 2026 294 3.98 5 5 5 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 23:30 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 17:55 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

Mosaïque FM Tunisia 2 Oct, 17:55 UTC
هجوم يستهدف ناقلة أثناء خروجها من مضيق هرمز

Middle East 4 outlets

SANA Syria 2 Oct, 17:25 UTC
هيئة بحرية بريطانية: إصابة سفينة بمقذوف مجهول أثناء خروجها من مضيق هرمز
Al Sharq Qatar 2 Oct, 17:16 UTC
هيئة عمليات التجارة البحرية البريطانية: استهداف ناقلة أثناء خروجها من مضيق هرمز
Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 2 Oct, 16:17 UTC
مقذوف يصيب ناقلة أثناء خروجها من مضيق هرمز
An-Nahar Lebanon 2 Oct, 16:16 UTC
هجوم استهدف ناقلة أثناء خروجها من مضيق هرمز
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- هجوم يستهدف ناقلة في مضيق هرمز 1 Oct, 23:17 UTC
- هجوم يستهدف ناقلة في مضيق هرمز 1 Oct, 23:17 UTC