The Chelyabinsk Event 2/15/13: Collection of Russian meteor videos & photos

The Urals region was struck by falling meteorite fragments which fell in the city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border (Daily Mail photograph)

 

I just came across a wonderful collection of videos and photographs on one website of, what I have dubbed the “Chelyabinsk Event”, the meteorite explosion in the stratosphere over Russia's city of Chelyabinsk near the Ural Mountains which detonated with the power of several atomic bombs and injured about 1,100 people yesterday Friday February 15^th, 2013.

People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave (Daily Mail photograph)

This collection was compiled by Alexander Zaytsev who happens to live three hundred kilometers from the city of Chelyabinsk where a meteorite exploded yesterday.

This is a site I highly recommend if you want easy access to photographs and videos of  the  “Chelyabinsk Event” of February 15^th, 2013. 

Disaster: This graphic shows the sequence of events which led to the meteor crashing in Russia (Daily Mail photograph)

The Chelyabinsk Event Friday  2/15/13: Video of Fireball