BND - Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Panama, tsunami warning issued

🗞️ Story file #292

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Panama, tsunami warning issued

Oct 9, 3 PM ET to Oct 9, 5 PM ET

21outlets carried it
🫏8 · 5 · 8🐘left · center · right
2 hourson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 9, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 9, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 9, 5 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 9, 3 PM to Oct 9, 5 PM ET (peak 21), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 earthquake hits panama 🫏 tsunami threat 🐘 6 quake 🐘 tsunami alerts

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Axios (2 wordings): “Panama rocked by massive earthquake” → “Panama rocked by major earthquake”
Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Breaking Panama Struck by Massive Quake, Sparking Tsunami Warnings A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Panama on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking warnings about tsunamis off its coast.” → “Panama’s Strongest Quake in Decades Shuts Capital Airport”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Powerful earthquake shakes Panama” → “Powerful earthquake shakes Panama”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “West Coast Tsunami Warning After Massive 7.6 Earthquake Rocks Panama” → “Tsunami Warning Issued After Massive 7.6 Earthquake Rocks Panama”
Reuters (3 wordings): “7.6 magnitude earthquake felt in Panama - USGS - Reuters” → “Strong Panama quake damages buildings, disrupts power and air travel”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Massive earthquake strikes Panama; tsunami threat issued” → “Massive earthquake strikes Panama, tsunami threat issued”

Every outlet's first headline (21), left to right by AllSides rating