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Magnitude-7 earthquake kills at least 16 in northern Tibet

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 70 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct 23 Oct 14:13 UTC · Magnitude-7 earthquake kills at least 16 in northern Tibet 24 Oct 06:09 UTC · Magnitude-7 earthquake kills at least 16 in northern Tibet

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 23 Oct, 14:13 UTC

    Magnitude-7 earthquake kills at least 16 in northern Tibet

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • 5.2 earthquake strikes · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • earthquake strikes: 7 (5 from 22 Oct 15:45) → 7.0 (1 from 23 Oct 11:30) → 5.2 (2 from 23 Oct 18:15) → 5.3 (1 from 24 Oct 14:00) → 5.7 (1 from 25 Oct 12:30) → 5.9 (1 from 25 Oct 13:15)
  • people killed: 2,698 (1 from 22 Oct 23:24) → 16 (2 from 22 Oct 23:37) → 126 (3 from 22 Oct 23:37)
  • people injured: 16 (1 from 23 Oct 01:35) → 65 (3 from 23 Oct 01:35) → 54 (1 from 23 Oct 13:36) → 2,700 (1 from 23 Oct 13:36)
  • people died: 148 (3 from 23 Oct 01:35) → 600 (2 from 23 Oct 01:35)
  • magnitude earthquake: 7.0 (3 from 22 Oct 17:00) → 4.5 (1 from 24 Oct 02:00)
  • earthquake hits: 7 (1 from 22 Oct 17:30) → 7.0 (1 from 23 Oct 08:45) → 6.9 (1 from 24 Oct 05:33)

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