______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 Characteristics of the meteoroid fall Angle of entering into the – Chebarkul lake 20 degrees atmosphere Velocity of the meteoroid 18-20 km/h

Diameter of the meteoroid 17 m

Mass of the meteoroid до 10 t 300-500 Power of the explosion kilotons Distance to Earth at the 20-25 km moment of explosion 2

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Meteor shower

Parameters of the trace Width 63 km Tyumen Length 480 km SVERDLOVSK REGION

Yekaterinburg TYUMEN RE

CHELYABINSK REGION ParametersМетеоритный of affected area дождь Krasnoarmeyskiy area Length (max) 130 km Width (max) 59,9 km Total area approx. 500 sq CHELYABINSK KOPEYSK KURGAN REGION KORKINO

ion 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 Broken windows lightning»

Consequences of meteor rain fall 5

Consequences of meteor Zinc factory rain fall

Arrival of an injured patient From Chelyabinsk Consequences of meteor rain fall 6

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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 National Crisis Management EMERCOM of Russia Centre of EMERCOM of Russia

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Reaction to Emergency situation

07.50 (Moscow time) 08.00 (Moscow time) «Heightened readiness» regime 07.55 (Moscow time) Operative point of elimination of the was established by territorial emergency situation of EMERCOM of structures of EMERCOM of Informing the regional centre Russia is established, headquarters of Russia, 978 education-rescue EMERCOM of Russia in Sverdlovsk, centre, Ural regional search and Tyumen and Kurgan regions. rescue team

11.00 (Moscow time) 08.10 (Moscow time) 09.45 (Moscow time) Inter-structural operational unit is Operational duty shift of National created on the base of headquarters Operational unit of the centre for crisis management of EMERCOM of Russia in regional centre on site organizes the work of psychologists, Chelyabinsk region opens “hotlines”

13.00 (Moscow time) 12.00 (Moscow time) 14.00 (Moscow time) 978 education-rescue centre is Mobile point of EMERCOM of Head of regional centre leaves brought into EMERGENCY Russia Chelyabinsk region leaves to location of emergency to location of emergency situation SITUATION regime situation

Transfer of information about the emergency situation was timely and adequate, cooperation with functional and territorial subsystems of ‘Russian information 8 service of emergency situations’ was organized

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Organization of provision of informing the population

08.12 (Moscow time) 08.07 (Moscow time) 08.15 (Moscow time) SMS-distribution of the Via local broadcasting mobile operator Sky-Link Information sharing via holdings (city of Chelyabinsk) 23 media channels

08.24 (Moscow time) 08.25 (Moscow time) Information is displayed on the 13 08.21 (Moscow time) terminal modules of the Russian Information is posted on National Integrated Population SMS-distribution of the the site edds74.ru Notification and Warning System of mobile operator MegaFon Chelyabinsk

08.47 (Moscow time) Since 09.30 (Moscow time) Briefings and press Information sharing via conferences with mass cable television and the media Internet

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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 by March 5th (with the exception of difficult sport facilities). 11

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 Tracking for Elimination of the space threat several years 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

Hiding the Evacuation of the population in population 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 14

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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