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DEVELOPING · 23 OCT → 30 OCT 2026 · 8 EDITIONS · 24 OUTLETS

Tsunami warning issued after strong earthquake near Vanuatu

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 12 24 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 24 Oct 12:22 UTC · Tsunami alerts issued after earthquakes near Sicily and Vanuatu 26 Oct 00:17 UTC · Strong earthquake strikes near Japan’s Bonin Islands; no tsunami reported 26 Oct 06:21 UTC · Tsunami warning issued after strong earthquake near Vanuatu

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 3 HEADLINES

  1. 24 Oct, 12:22 UTC

    Tsunami alerts issued after earthquakes near Sicily and Vanuatu

  2. 26 Oct, 00:17 UTC

    Strong earthquake strikes near Japan’s Bonin Islands; no tsunami reported

  3. 26 Oct, 06:21 UTC

    Tsunami warning issued after strong earthquake near Vanuatu

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

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • magnitude earthquake: 4.3 (1 from 23 Oct 14:12) → 7.2 (2 from 24 Oct 03:02)

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