Russia Journal…………PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY – More than 1,500 rescue workers and 260 units of equipment have been summoned to Russia’s Far Eastern towns hit by a powerful earthquake last week, emergency services said Wednesday. The earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 points on the Richter scale, the strongest since 1900 in the area, hit the sparsely populated Koryak Autonomous Area on the Kamchatka Peninsula April 21.
EARTHQUAKE / 1500 TO THE RESCUE
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