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Jul 1, 2024 · The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013, was the largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an area with a population exceeding 1 million. On clear morning at 9:20 a.m. local time, an asteroid about 19 m in size entered the Earth atmosphere near southern Ural ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Kyshtym disaster, explosion of buried nuclear waste from a plutonium-processing plant near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia (then in the U.S.S.R.), on September 29, 1957.
1 day ago · On May 4, an unidentified activist with a group called the Urals Feminist Initiative was detained in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk while holding a sign reading: “Child-Free Is Not A Crime ...
3 days ago · A military court has sentenced a resident of the western Russian region of Chelyabinsk to 13 years in a maximum-security prison and fined him 200,000 rubles ($2,245) on a charge of high treason for calling on those mobilized to the military to surrender to Ukrainian forces.
Jun 23, 2024 · Tunguska event, enormous explosion that occurred at about 7:14 AM on June 30, 1908, at an altitude of 5–10 km (15,000–30,000 feet), flattening some 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) and charring more than 100 square km of pine forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, Russia.
2 days ago · Chelyabinsk 54°49’N, 61°07’E (approximate centroid) Chelyabinskaya oblast’, Russia. Fell: 15 Feb 2013; 3:22 UT. Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL5) History: At 9:22 a.m. (local time) on February 15, 2013, a bright fireball was seen by numerous residents in parts of the Kurgan, Tyumen, Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk districts. Images ...
1 day ago · The Philadelphia Flyers signed defenceman Egor Zamula to a two-year deal worth $3.4 million, the team announced on Sunday. Zamula, 24, scored five goals and totaled 21 points in 66 games with the ...
