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DEVELOPING · 3 OCT → 20 OCT 2026 · 18 EDITIONS · 71 OUTLETS

Powerful earthquake damages buildings and roads across Panama

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 35 71 4 Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 10 Oct 00:11 UTC · Powerful earthquake strikes Panama, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuations 10 Oct 06:46 UTC · Powerful earthquake strikes Panama, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuations 10 Oct 12:10 UTC · Powerful earthquake strikes Panama, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuations 10 Oct 18:13 UTC · Powerful earthquake damages buildings and roads across Panama

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

  1. 10 Oct, 00:11 UTC

    Powerful earthquake strikes Panama, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuations

  2. 10 Oct, 18:13 UTC

    Powerful earthquake damages buildings and roads across Panama

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • 7.7 magnitude earthquake · from 9 Oct 19:39, 7 outlets
  • 7.6 earthquake strikes · from 9 Oct 19:00, 6 outlets
  • 7.6 magnitude earthquake · from 9 Oct 18:40, 4 outlets
  • 6 earthquake strikes · from 13 Oct 00:15, 4 outlets
  • Costa Rica · from 9 Oct 18:40, 3 outlets
  • Los Santos · from 9 Oct 19:39, 3 outlets
  • 6.3 magnitude earthquake · from 8 Oct 10:15, 2 outlets
  • 7.7 earthquake shakes · from 9 Oct 19:00, 2 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

  • earthquake strikes: 4.8 (1 from 3 Oct 05:15) → 4.9 (2 from 4 Oct 22:30) → 3.6 (1 from 6 Oct 18:00) → 7.6 (6 from 9 Oct 19:00) → 8 (1 from 9 Oct 19:15) → 7.7 (2 from 9 Oct 20:15) → 5.7 (2 from 11 Oct 09:00) → 6 (4 from 13 Oct 00:15) → 6.1 (1 from 13 Oct 02:00)
  • magnitude earthquake: 4.8 (1 from 2 Oct 22:15) → 6.3 (2 from 8 Oct 10:15) → 7.6 (4 from 9 Oct 18:40) → 7.7 (7 from 9 Oct 19:39) → 6.0 (1 from 9 Oct 22:48) → 5.3 (1 from 10 Oct 10:45)
  • earthquake struck: 4.8 (1 from 2 Oct 19:57) → 5.8 (1 from 12 Oct 00:15) → 7.2 (1 from 15 Oct 18:24)
  • earthquake shakes: 7.7 (2 from 9 Oct 19:00) → 7.6 (1 from 9 Oct 20:30)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.