Meteor Strike Causes Panic, Injuries in Urals

15 February 2013
By Alexander Winning and Allison Quinn
A meteor with an explosive force of several kilotons crashed to Earth in the Chelyabinsk region on Friday, authorities said, causing a shockwave that shattered windows, shook the ground and injured close to a thousand people.

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