{"id":2743,"date":"2013-02-16T07:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2013-02-16T07:44:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:44:18","slug":"russia-cleans-up-after-meteor-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/02\/16\/2743\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia cleans up after meteor strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news2\/russian.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Thousands of workers have been dispatched to Russia&#8217;s Chelyabinsk region, where a meteor streaking across the sky caused a shockwave that injured almost a thousand people, officials say.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The meteor sent fireballs crashing to Earth, smashed windows and set off car alarms all over Chelyabinsk, in the Ural Mountains region. Fragments of the rock fell on Friday in a thinly populated area of Chelyabinsk, the emergency ministry said in a statement.<br \/>&#8220;A meteorite disintegrated above the Urals [mountain range in central Russia], partially burning up in the lower atmosphere,&#8221; the local office of the national emergencies ministry said in a statement.<br \/>Residents on their way to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a<br \/>shockwave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city that is located about 1,500 km east of Moscow.<br \/>The meteorite raced across the horizon, leaving a long white trail in its wake which could be seen as far as 200km away in Yekaterinburg. Car alarms went off, windows shattered and mobile phones worked only intermittently.<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Yurevich, Chelyabinsk governor, quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency, said at least 950 people were injured and that two-thirds of the injuries were light wounds from pieces of glass and other materials.<br \/>In the city of Chelyabinsk alone, 758 people had required medical help, the city said in a statement on its website.<br \/>Vadim Kolesnikov, an interior ministry spokesperson, said that most people had sought treatment for injuries from glass broken by the explosions. Kolsenikov also said about 6,000sq ft of a roof at a zinc factory had collapsed.<br \/>The government said that almost 300 buildings were damaged including schools, hospitals and even an ice hockey stadium.<br \/>The emergencies ministry described Friday&#8217;s events as a &#8220;meteor shower in the form of fireballs&#8221; and said background radiation levels were normal. It urged residents not to panic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Blinding flash<\/strong><br \/>Amateur video broadcast on Russian television showed an object speeding across the sky at about 9:20am local time (03:20 GMT), leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.<br \/>Television footage showed morning traffic grinding to a quick halt as a blinding flash lit up the blue sky, causing some to huddle in buildings for safety.<br \/>Windows were shattered on Chelyabinsk&#8217;s central Lenin Street and some of the frames of shop fronts buckled. A loud noise, resembling an explosion, rang out at around 9.20am. The shockwave could be felt in apartment buildings in the industrial city&#8217;s centre.<br \/>Officials said a part of the meteorite fell 80km from the town of Satki, itself 100km west of the regional centre.<br \/>Schools were closed for the day across the region after the impact blew out windows of buildings and temperatures had plunged in central Russia to -18 degrees Celsius (0 degrees Fahrenheit).<br \/>The Chelyabinsk region is Russia&#8217;s industrial heartland, filled with factories and other huge facilities that include a nuclear power plant and the massive Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.<br \/>A spokesman for Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy state corporation, said that its operations remained unaffected.<br \/>The fall of such a large meteor, estimated as weighing dozens of tonnes, was extremely rare, while the number of casualties as a consequence of its burning up around a heavily-inhabited area was unprecedented.<br \/>The office of the local governor said that a meteorite had fallen into a lake outside the town of Chebarkul in Chelyabinsk and television images pointed to a six-metre hole in the frozen lake&#8217;s ice.<br \/>It has yet to be finally confirmed, however, if meteorite fragments made contact with the Earth and there were no reports that any locals had been hurt directly by a falling piece of meteorite.<br \/>Friday&#8217;s meteor explosion appears to be one of the most stunning cosmic events above Russia since the 1908 Tunguska event, when a massive blast most scientists blame on an asteroid or a comet impact struck Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><strong>Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of workers have been dispatched to Russia&#8217;s Chelyabinsk region, where a meteor streaking across the sky caused a shockwave that injured almost a thousand people, officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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