[Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET] The injury count in Friday's meteor blast over Russia is rising as the day goes on.
About 1,000 people – including 200 children – have been reported hurt by shockwaves or fragments from a meteor that exploded over central Russia, according to Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency. Most were hurt by broken glass, and about two-thirds of the injuries were very minor, RIA Novosti reported, citing the Chelyabinsk region's governor.
More than 250 buildings have sustained damage – mostly broken glass – as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast, said Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry.
[Posted at 3:49 a.m. ET] A meteor shower sparked an explosion that left 250 people injured Friday in southern Russia, state media reported.
Of the hundreds, at least three were critically injured by broken glass, state-run RIA Novosti reported.
A bright white flash appeared in the sky for a few seconds, followed by a heavy "bang" that sounded like a blast, according to Russian News Agency Itar-Tass.
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Thank you!
And we believe in nasa, why?
this was a rock weighing several tons!
I wonder what the astronomers are doing lately and if, next time we will be "surprised", we'll be so lucky.
The worst thing is, they could be omitting things from the general public.
And this is another reason. Can't post a simple sentence thanks to bad soft-ware and worse policies. Grow up.
There will be an asteroid DA14 passing by disintegrating in the atmosphere the earth will sustain also a massive earthquakes.
Wanna bet? I knew some religious wacko would start putting a divine intervention twist to this. Is there nothing too untrue, too stupid, or too ludicrous for the religious reich to refrain from saying? Apparently not.
Are they sure it wasn't a spaceship full of little green aliens? Congress will have to scramble to include space aliens in their immigration bill!
Now fernace, we all know that space ships don't come from space. They come fro Colorado.
Rawr: it had to be said.
Not too many clever comments. If this meteor had fallen over NY or LA, it would have done some very serious damage!
Very true.... and what warning, would the people in those cities, have been given?
We don't really know what's coming toward our planet??
We rely on amateur observers?
Great!
wait, am i the only one who saw that the meteor had 2 smoke trails? look at 3:12 .... are u sure that "meteor" didn't come from Korea?
@ jamal:
You have a very good point, and I could never prove that the object did not come from Korea.
The story of the meteor sounds more and more like Menotti's opera, AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS.
Two smoke trails could only indicate fragmentation of the object. This is what usually happens with meteors. But conspiracy theories are much more fun, even if they are crazy.
Okay, I have a couple questions about this event. (1) News reports say that this event and the passing of the asteroid today at some 17,000 some odd miles from earth has no corellation, yet NASA says they are unable to track anything this small. So how can they say unequvocally that this did not break away from said asteroid ? (2) They said this metorite weighed somewhere around 10 tons. Again, if they are unable to track these thing because they're too small, how do they know it weighed ten tons ?
Good question @ bobcat. And how much does one of our space shuttles weigh? They can track those just fine!
Lol @ bobcat, and very funny on the colorado comment btw!
There going to be more soon. Trust me there going to be. This big asteroid that is going to pass by today has thousands of small ones with it some of those will hit. Most will burn up in atmosphere.
If that big one hits it will kill millions of people.
One secondary result would be a slight decrease in glob–uh, climate change.
We have too many people riding this planet, and some need to disembark._
Wake up call to Russia. Someone isnt very happy with how theyre behaving!
@ chrissy:
Wait till He sends the locusts!
Does God really need a pyrotechnics show?
Lol @ Joey, THAT was funny. Oh and wait til he sends OUR wake up call also!
This just goes to show how little mankind is in control. They are tracking "thousands" of these, but how many more thousands are not detected like this one? Also, I agree that it is more than coincidence that this one and DA14 just happen to be passing on the same day. More to follow soon?