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2013/EPWG/SDMOF/022
Session 2
Elimination of Consequences of Meteorite Crash in
Chelyabinsk Region
Purpose: Information
Submitted by: Russia
7th Senior Disaster Management Officials
Forum
Bali, Indonesia
21-22 August 2013
26/8/2013
Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense,
Emergencies and Elimination for Consequences of
Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia)
Report
“Elimination of consequences of meteorite crash
in Chelyabinsk region”
2013
Tracks and explosion of the meteorite over Chelyabinsk
Location of the meteoroid fall
– Chebarkul lake
Characteristics of the meteoroid fall
Angle of entering into the
atmosphere
20 degrees
Velocity of the meteoroid
18-20 km/h
Diameter of the meteoroid
17 m
Mass of the meteoroid
до 10 t
Power of the explosion
300-500
kilotons
Distance to Earth at the
moment of explosion
20-25 km
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Meteor shower
Parameters of the trace
Width
Length
63 km
480 km
Tyumen
SVERDLOVSK REGION
Yekaterinburg
TYUMEN RE
CHELYABINSK REGION
ParametersМетеоритный
of affected area дождь
Krasnoarmeyskiy area
CHELYABINSK
Length (max)
Width (max)
Total area
KOPEYSK
KURGAN REGION
KORKINO
ion
130 km
59,9 km
approx. 500 sq
ETKULSK AREA
of meteor shower flight
received significant damage
YUZHNOURALSK
UVELSKIY AREA
received less significant damage
hes
Consequences of meteorite crash
Number of buildings/sights with
damaged glass coverage
Total
7320
Including:
Health facilities
296
Social protection facilities
29
Cultural facilities
110
Educational institutions
740
Sport facilities
48
Liveable homes
6097
1613 persons asked for medical assistance, among them 324 children.
Total damage from the meteor fall was approximately 1 billion roubles.
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Sport facility «Ural
lightning»
Broken windows
Consequences of
meteor rain fall
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Consequences of meteor
Zinc factory
Arrival of an injured patient
From Chelyabinsk
rain fall
Consequences of meteor
rain fall
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Transfer of information about emergency situations
07.20 (Moscow time)
Operational duty shift of Crisis
Management Centre and
regional structures in Ural federal
region
07.21 (Moscow time)
07.21 (Moscow time)
Ural regional centre of
EMERCOM of Russia
National Crisis Management
Centre of EMERCOM of Russia
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Reaction to Emergency situation
07.50 (Moscow time)
«Heightened readiness» regime
was established by territorial
structures of EMERCOM of
Russia, 978 education-rescue
centre, Ural regional search and
rescue team
08.00 (Moscow time)
07.55 (Moscow time)
Informing the regional centre
11.00 (Moscow time)
Operative point of elimination of the
emergency situation of EMERCOM of
Russia is established, headquarters of
EMERCOM of Russia in Sverdlovsk,
Tyumen and Kurgan regions.
08.10 (Moscow time)
09.45 (Moscow time)
Inter-structural operational unit is
created on the base of headquarters
of EMERCOM of Russia in
Chelyabinsk region
Operational unit of the
regional centre on site
12.00 (Moscow time)
13.00 (Moscow time)
Mobile point of EMERCOM of
Russia Chelyabinsk region leaves
to location of emergency situation
978 education-rescue centre is
brought into EMERGENCY
SITUATION regime
Operational duty shift of National
centre for crisis management
organizes the work of psychologists,
opens “hotlines”
14.00 (Moscow time)
Head of regional centre leaves
to location of emergency
situation
Transfer of information about the emergency situation was timely and adequate,
cooperation with functional and territorial subsystems of ‘Russian information
service of emergency situations’ was organized
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Organization of provision of informing the population
08.07 (Moscow time)
Via local broadcasting
holdings
08.25 (Moscow time)
Information is posted on
the site edds74.ru
08.47 (Moscow time)
Information sharing via
cable television and the
Internet
08.12 (Moscow time)
SMS-distribution of the
mobile operator Sky-Link
(city of Chelyabinsk)
08.24 (Moscow time)
Information is displayed on the 13
terminal modules of the Russian
National Integrated Population
Notification and Warning System of
Chelyabinsk
08.15 (Moscow time)
Information sharing via
23 media channels
08.21 (Moscow time)
SMS-distribution of the
mobile operator MegaFon
Since 09.30 (Moscow time)
Briefings and press
conferences with mass
media
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Text of the transferred message
«Attention! EMERCOM of Russia reports:
According to information of the Yekaterinburg's Observatory,
a meteorite crash occurred in Chelyabinsk region.
Please keep the peace. There is no impact on the livelihood
conditions of the population.
EMERCOM of Russia calls for the population from refraining
to use mobile phones in order to avoid network congestion.
There are no foreseeable repeated meteorite crashes.
Hotline telephone numbers: 239-71-05, 239-99-99.
Watch the reports of EMERCOM of Russia !»
Events of organization of informing the population were completed
in full capacity in a timely manner.
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Mitigation of consequences of the emergency
Working group of the Governmental Commission for Emergency Response and Ensuring
Fire Safety was ensured directly at the scene of the emergency. The heads of the Commission –
Minister V.A. Puchkov and the Chairman of Chelyabinsk region’s Committee for Emergency
Response and Ensuring Fire Safety I. Muroga.
The measures for subsistence of the affected population were arranged, control for the socially
significant facilities was enhanced, the complex of measures for protection of shell, core and utilities of
the destroyed buildings was organized.
Overall 24127 people and 4327 units of equipment were involved in the mitigation of
consequences of the emergency situation, including 18787 people and 3563 units of equipment of
EMERCOM of Russia.
During the mitigation of consequences of the emergency, the units of the EMERCOM of Russia
glassed 24655,2 м2 of windows, demounted 3765 apertures of window, handled 263,15 tones of glass,
disposed 75255,6 м3 of construction waste.
Work of psychologists was organized, the hotline telephone numbers were opened.
1650 appeals of the citizens were registered, all of them addressed.
Overall, the organization of repair works caused by the emergency situation was
organized at a high level. All planned events for repairing livelihood of the population and
normalization of the situation in the region were completed. Works оn elimination of
consequences of the fall and explosion of the meteorite on the territory of the region were completed
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by March 5th (with the exception of difficult sport facilities).
Scenarios of space threats
•
Scenario 1 – An asteroid is discovered and is tracked, potential fall onto
Earth is expected in several years.
Discovery of a
space threat
Tracking for
several years
Elimination of the
threat
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Scenarios of space threats
•
Scenario 2 – The asteroid is discovered late, the fall is expected in several
hours
Discovery of
cosmic threat
Evacuation of the
population
Hiding the
population in
protected
structures
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Scenarios of space threats
•
Scenario 3 – Asteroid falls onto Earth unexpectedly
Transfer of correct information through media about the events in order to
avoid panic after the explosion
Organization of a hotline connection
Organization of the collection of information regarding number of deceased
and harmed population, the scale of destruction of buildings and sights
Checking the quality of livelihood systems with collecting information to
Integrated operative dispatch service
Permanent chemical and radioactive monitoring, as well as water, air, soil and
foodstuffs quality control
Monitoring of all potentially dangerous objects
In case of a lack of own resources – organization of resources from
neighbouring regions
Organization of additional fire-rescue services, public safety units
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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