Panama hit by magnitude 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershocks
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
HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 5 HEADLINES
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10 Oct, 00:08 UTC
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, damaging buildings and roads
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10 Oct, 06:43 UTC
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, tsunami threat lifted
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10 Oct, 12:08 UTC
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Panama, damaging buildings and roads
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11 Oct, 00:12 UTC
Powerful earthquakes strike Panama, prompting evacuations and regional tsunami warnings
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11 Oct, 01:32 UTC
Panama hit by magnitude 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershocks
WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER
From the first reports to the latest
- Los Santos · 6 outlets
- 7.6 magnitude earthquake · 4 outlets
- La Prensa · 2 outlets
Entered the story later
- Nothing new took hold after the first third.
Figures reported with different numbers
- magnitude earthquake: 7.6 (4 from 9 Oct 18:33) → 7.7 (5 from 9 Oct 18:52) → 6.6 (2 from 9 Oct 21:33) → 9.9 (1 from 16 Oct 10:30)
- earthquake shakes: 7.6 (5 from 9 Oct 18:45) → 7.7 (4 from 9 Oct 20:00)
- magnitude quake: 7.6 (2 from 9 Oct 18:41) → 6.6 (2 from 9 Oct 18:52) → 7.7 (1 from 9 Oct 19:45)
- earthquake rocks: 7.7 (2 from 9 Oct 19:00) → 7.6 (1 from 9 Oct 20:30)
- earthquake hit: 7.7 (2 from 9 Oct 19:22) → 7.4 (1 from 9 Oct 19:22)
Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.