Wednesday 15 July 2020 · below the Index · spike
Iran shipyard fires destroy multiple vessels
Multiple ships caught fire and were destroyed at an Iranian shipyard on July 15, 2020, in what officials described as mysterious incidents. At least 7 boats were reported to have caught fire at the facility.
Peak 58.2 on Thursday 16 July 2020. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Social-led, both over the window and on the peak day. Social here is X alone — Bluesky only joins the series from July 2024 — so its level isn't directly comparable with today's series, though its share of this incident is real.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 53% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Thursday 25 June 2020.
How far it spread
No vessel type moved — 0 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: engine of trade. Trade press was 10% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 32% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor; 0% of it was strongly negative in tone.
What the coverage said
- The Day - 200,000 seafarers fear there's no plan to get them off ships - News from southeastern Connecticuttheday.com · 2020-07-12
Gold rule = a national or international outlet, not a trade title. fewer than three independent outlets.
- social = X only before Bluesky (2024-07-01); not comparable with today's series
- tier C: only a Wikipedia article, GDELT sub-vocabulary term, or social per-term query fired — not yet confirmed as a real maritime incident (Phase C naming/is_maritime_incident does that).
- coverage scored on title only (no excerpt) — measured ~8pp frame precision cost vs title+excerpt (docs/HANDOVER-incidents.md §2.3)
- coverage filtered to articles matching this incident specifically (41/264 kept) — see coverage.filter.terms
Maritime Attention Index, incident: Iran shipyard fires destroy multiple vessels, peak 58.2 on 16 July 2020. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2020-seafarer-repatriation-crisis-during-covid-19-pandemic-2/