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Earthquakes in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of earthquake news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about earthquakes, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In February 2023, the month of the Turkey–Syria earthquakes, earthquakes took 102.09 of every 10,000 articles in a global news index, the highest monthly share between January 2019 and July 2026 and 13.54 times the share for the whole of 2022.
Basis: Monthly earthquake articles divided by all articles in the index for the same month; February 2023 alone held 15,561 articles, 38.35% of all earthquake articles in 2023.
Earthquakes took 19.81 of every 10,000 news articles in 2023, 2.63 times their 2022 share (7.54), while in every other year from 2019 to 2025 the share stayed between 7.54 and 10.67.
Basis: Annual earthquake articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year, complete years 2019–2025.
Of earthquake articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 76.2% were negative in tone, 2.27 times the 33.6% negative share across all news in the same index.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.7% of sampled articles carry a label.
A machine-assigned editorial priority rating placed 78.3% of earthquake articles at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale) between January 2023 and July 2026, 1.84 times the 42.6% share for all news.
Basis: Top priority label per article; critical = priority ≥ 7.
Tsunami early warning appeared as a theme in 20.81% of themed earthquake articles between January 2023 and July 2026, 354.79 times its frequency in all themed news.
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; lift against all themed news.
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Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9,022 | 17.31% | 0.36 |
| Turkey | 7,905 | 15.17% | 47.78 |
| India | 4,744 | 9.1% | 0.69 |
| Japan | 3,940 | 7.56% | 7.11 |
| Morocco | 1,879 | 3.61% | 47.11 |
| Myanmar | 1,847 | 3.54% | 109.45 |
| China | 1,698 | 3.26% | 1.24 |
| Syria | 1,680 | 3.22% | 45.66 |
| Afghanistan | 1,499 | 2.88% | 34.84 |
| New Zealand | 1,371 | 2.63% | 4.07 |
| Indonesia | 1,267 | 2.43% | 8.74 |
| Philippines | 1,080 | 2.07% | 6.57 |
| Taiwan | 1,055 | 2.02% | 15.24 |
| Nepal | 1,050 | 2.01% | 11.17 |
| Thailand | 1,041 | 2.0% | 10.54 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "earthquake" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Earthquakes in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/earthquakes/