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Americas / Panama · Environment

US to send aid and damage assessments to Panama after magnitude 7.7 earthquake

Rank
Running
34h
Updated
13h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
7
Languages
2

La República (CO) Colombia · Spanish 9 Oct, 22:50 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Русский (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 36 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: La República (CO), 9 Oct, 22:50 UTC.
  2. Second country: Chile, with BioBioChile.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 22:50 UTC.
  4. Second region: Europe, with Interfax.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

36 of 36 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

86%14%

  • Americas 6 outlets · 6 countries · 86%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. La República (CO) 9 Oct, 22:50 UTC
  2. BioBioChile +36m
  3. Interfax +1h 27m
  4. El Nacional +16h 14m
  5. CiberCuba +21h 43m

Latest arrivals

  1. RPP 10 Oct, 21:38 UTC
  2. Infobae 10 Oct, 21:17 UTC
  3. CiberCuba 10 Oct, 20:33 UTC
  4. El Nacional 10 Oct, 15:03 UTC
  5. Interfax 10 Oct, 00:17 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 2 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 6: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Venezuela. Europe 1: Russia. 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
Spanish, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article La República (CO), 9 Oct 2026, 22:50 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 00:30 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 21:38 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 Americas, Panama. 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
0.55, 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.
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
10 Oct 2026 127 4.39 7 7 5 5 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 00:30 UTC · Updated 21:38 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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  • RPP Peru 10 Oct, 21:38 UTC
    EE.UU. apoya a Panamá con evaluaciones en daños estructurales tras el terremoto de magnitud 7.7
  • Infobae Argentina 10 Oct, 21:17 UTC
    EE.UU. apoya a Panamá con evaluaciones en daños estructurales tras el terremoto
  • CiberCuba Cuba 10 Oct, 20:33 UTC
    Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. destina $5 millones para Panamá tras devastador terremoto de 7.7
  • El Nacional Venezuela 10 Oct, 15:03 UTC
    Marco Rubio confirmó que EE UU enviará ayuda a Panamá tras el terremoto de magnitud 7,7
  • Interfax Russia 10 Oct, 00:17 UTC
    США окажут помощь пострадавшей от землетрясения Панаме
  • BioBioChile Chile 9 Oct, 23:25 UTC
    Marco Rubio anuncia envío de ayuda de EEUU a Panamá tras terremoto 7,7
  • La República (CO) Colombia 9 Oct, 22:50 UTC
    Secretario de Estados Unidos coordina ayuda para Panamá tras terremoto de magnitud 7,7
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