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Today, 02/15/2013 in Kamensk-Uralsky Sverdlovsk area in the Leninsky microdistrict at approximately 08.40 local time a meteorite fell. Despite the fact that it was already light, was visible characteristic very bright flash watch from 0.40 min.
… at about 9.21 a sharp start to lighten, to pain in the eyes, it became very bright, closed his eyes with his hand, after a few seconds, opened and looked at the source. In the sky from bright white to almost something flashed red, leaving behind such a trace … shot a video in a few seconds, after about 1 minute there was an explosion (or rather a series of explosions), then followed by shock wave, managed to open the window, so that the pressure would not be knocked out, howled car alarms, people standing on the street stood looking at sky and continued vibrations from the blast
In Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen, eyewitnesses report explosion in the sky. It is speculated that flash is meteorite or comet.
In Chelyabinsk, a blast wave knocked out windows in a number of houses. how according to Interfax, some eyewitnesses believe that it exploded airplane. In the city, people are evacuated from buildings, cell phone disappeared communication.
In the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions people saw falling from the sky burning objects.
According to ITAR-TASS, a law enforcement source Ural Federal District, in the air “there was an outbreak, which caused a strong blow. “” According to preliminary data, happened a meteorite’s fall, ”the agency’s source said.
The EMERCOM of Russia reported that on Friday over the Chelyabinsk region it was a meteor shower. 
Photo from open sources “Space devices monitoring recorded outbreaks in the lower atmosphere, this meteor shower, “the deputy chief of the information department said EMERCOM of Russia Elena Smirnykh. According to her, the result was the destruction of the glazing of high-rise buildings in Chelyabinsk. “Goes survey of the territory. There are no victims and destruction. Threats to life and there’s no public health, “added Smirnykh. Earlier, a source in regional power structures reported that experts are checking information about the explosion over Chelyabinsk at an altitude of about 5 thousand meters. Information from outbreaks of the Urals about outbreaks in the sky. So, eyewitnesses from Yekaterinburg reported that they saw in the sky on On the outskirts of the city is a burning facility, which then fell. This phenomenon residents of Tyumen also saw, they described what they saw as glowing ball. A representative of the Central Military District told RIA News that no accidents with aircraft in the sky not fixed. Residents of Kostanay (administrative center Kostanay region in the north of Kazakhstan) observed an outbreak from meteorite and its fall, writes on Friday the regional publication Our newspaper. “According to the publication, on Friday February 15, around 9.15 o’clock (7.15 Moscow time) Kostanay witnessed the fall unknown celestial body. Eyewitnesses believe that this is a meteorite. “I I saw a flame in the middle of the sky. It was a big fireball with smoke plume, then he fell somewhere. It lasted only few seconds. Our office was lit in red, “- reported to the publication resident of Kostanay Alsu Sakhova. According to editorial staff, they have already received several calls from eyewitnesses of the fall meteorite. Earlier, RIA Novosti reported in the Russian Emergencies Ministry that on Friday over the Chelyabinsk region there was a meteor shower. As a result the glazing of high-rise buildings in Chelyabinsk was destroyed. The staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Chelyabinsk region was transferred to high alert, vital objects taken under increased security due to a meteorite fall, reporters were told in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Earlier, the EMERCOM of Russia reported that in Friday over the Chelyabinsk region was a meteor shower. Devices space monitoring recorded flares in the lower layers atmosphere. There are no victims and destruction. “At the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Chelyabinsk region introduced the plan “Fortress”, the personnel transferred to the state high alert, “- said in the press center of the department. There emphasized that the vital objects of the region are taken under enhanced security. As a result of the fall meteorite in the Chelyabinsk region in many houses of the regional center glass is broken, one of the schools has injured, previously, from cuts, told RIA Novosti in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. By according to the press center, in the Satka district of the Chelyabinsk region About 80 kilometers from the district center a meteorite fell. “In many Satka’s houses, as well as in the buildings of Chelyabinsk, the front facing the place falls, glass was smashed, “the department’s press center said. school number 130 of the city of Chelyabinsk “there are victims throughout visibility from blown glass. ”
In the houses of local residents, windows were blown out in the cities, in cities panic
Residents of the Chelyabinsk region this morning decided what started war: reports of giant fireballs everywhere come appeared in the sky and collapsed in the vicinity of large cities.
Bright flashes in the sky were seen by residents of Chelyabinsk, Kopeisk and even Ekaterinburg. They say it was like a fireball – some took him for a falling plane – then everything went dark and a powerful explosion thundered.
“Now something terribly incomprehensible happened! On the street, as if dabbled in a switch that smoothly turns on / off the light. At first it got dark, then a bright glow brightened, already eyes got sick. After 20 seconds, an explosion occurred. Many windows in the house opposite opened, our glass shook. I ran away with the child in the bathroom. And silence. I went to the balcony, people are in a panic on the street and on balconies. They said something like a bomb or a rocket exploded. To call impossible, it says “connection error” for 15 minutes, “writes in on his blog resident of Kopeisk.
In the Ministry of Emergencies and airports in the region denied rumors of a fallen by plane.
“The locals also noticed the fall of burning objects. Some mistook them for aircraft. However not one the aircraft did not crash in the Urals, everyone flies along schedule and in normal mode, “- said the agency.
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They say it was like a fireball – some accepted him for a meteorite, – then everything darkened and a powerful explosion thundered Photo: eyewitnesses
Judging by the “geography” of the appearance of the meteorite, the fallen pieces were some. Something collapsed on Churilovo, on Emanzhilinsk, one more the facility led to panic in the Chelyabinsk Shershny microdistrict.
“Fell into the residential sector !!! From there, cars go by the shaft, people go there running, “says another worried woman.
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Glass was broken in the building of the South Ural University Photo: eyewitnesses
In the Kurgan region, a married couple saw “aside Chelyabinsk flew a comet, flared up and burst. ”
And although the Ministry of Emergencies reports that there are no victims and injuries, in blogs talk about something completely different. In one of the schools after the explosion the fallen meteor knocked out all the glass and many children got shrapnel wounds. The guys cut their hands and faces, all of them cry.
In the area of the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant at the electrode the factory knocked out large windows that cut employees. In the shop the ceiling collapsed. Parents of kindergarten students, located in that area are asked to urgently pick up the children.
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Another object led to panic in the Chelyabinsk Shershny microdistrict Photo: eyewitnesses
The situation is aggravated by the fact that after the fall of the unidentified objects in the area ceased to work cellular communications. Many people don’t can contact their relatives and are terribly worried about them.
OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE NETWORK
Marina Semenyuk
“Zakharenko !!! I was thrown from the sofa, the house in the second explosion staggered … Horror! A friend called from Yuzhnouralsk, saying that they have even the windows were knocked out .. What happened with SUSU ??? They say people suffered there and they evacuated. ”
Elena (Chelyabinsk)
“I’m sitting at the computer, it’s so bright on the street. Girls !!! On something exploded in the sky. Then it was quiet. And then it rumbles. all the glass flew out. ”
Knopo4ka (Chelyabinsk)
“Hey, are everyone at least healthy? Horror, meteorites in figs fly ((so scared, the light, and the explosion, everything fell at home, all the windows to plow !! ”
Kitsunya-Ksyunya (Kopeysk)
“my husband was stunned. doesn’t hear. the house almost collapsed. the walls, the ceiling staggered. ”
Tatyana Pankova (Chelyabinsk)
“grandmother called the village in the Chebarkul district, at 2.5 hours drive … the same thing happened, already the foundation of the house went with a shaker, it could be a plane … ”
Elena Belova (Chelyabinsk)
“it was very scary, we have in the center of the city at all the windows povybival, he fell in Churilovo, many people suffered, and I to my husband I can not get through!!!”
Anna (Chelyabinsk)
“Chelyabinsk, attention !!! They say that at 11 may happen again like because not all fragments have fallen yet. Do not go to the windows close, close the curtains !! Also some warn about the increase radiation … ”
Olga (Yuzhnouralsk)
“the husband rushed home with square eyes to find out how we are here, from the kindergarten and school (near our house) children are taken away, because window crouching (poor kids, scared), all roads clogged with cars … kapets ”
Four people hit by a fall meteorite debris on Friday in the Ural Federal District, reported by the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. “Minor splinters of the meteorite reached Land and fell in sparsely populated areas of the area near the city Satka of the Chelyabinsk region. According to preliminary data, due to four people suffered damage to the glazing, ” release. Earlier, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that as a result of the emergency students in Satka’s school suffered, without specifying the number of wounded. Rescuers do not predict further fall of meteorite fragments in the Urals, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry website on Friday. “Systems energy, mobile communication systems are stable. Radiation background is normal. A further fall of meteorite fragments is not expected, “- said in a press release. The press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the seats falling meteorite debris in the Chelyabinsk region may have been some. One of them is located in the Satka region of the region. how specified on the website of the GUMChS in the Tyumen region, according to Observatory of the Ural Federal University, the district was meteor shower in the form of fireballs (bright meteorites), threats no to the population. The press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported that as a result of the emergency in many houses of the Ural city of Satka glass was broken, in one of schools have been affected, previously, from cuts. Earlier source in the regional power structures said that experts are checking information about the explosion over Chelyabinsk at an altitude of about 5 thousand meters. Information from outbreaks of the Urals about outbreaks in the sky. So, eyewitnesses from Yekaterinburg reported that they saw in the sky on On the outskirts of the city is a burning facility, which then fell. This phenomenon residents of Tyumen also saw, they described what they saw as glowing ball. based on Russian media
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