• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Quake kills 4 in Russia's Chechnya region

GROZNY, Russia
Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:24am EDT

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Four people were killed in Russia's Chechnya region Saturday when an earthquake shook the Caucasus mountains, the Emergencies Ministry said.

World  |  Russia

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 5.9, classing it as moderate.

The four victims were killed in the Chechen town of Kurchaloi, about 20 km (12 miles) southeast of the regional capital Grozny, a ministry spokesman said on Vesti news channel. Russian news agencies said the dead included a soldier who was killed when a wall collapsed on him.

The 40-second tremor knocked windows out of a literature institute in Grozny and cracked the facade of the regional administration headquarters. But damage in the town was otherwise minimal.

A Reuters Television producer in Tbilisi said the quake could be felt in the Georgian capital nearly 250 km (180 miles) away.

(Writing by Melissa Akin: Editing by Richard Balmforth)
World
Russia


More from Reuters

Photo

Plot exposes fissure in U.S. intelligence community

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet has exposed lingering fissures within the U.S. intelligence community, which had information from interviews and clandestine intercepts but did not put the pieces together, officials said.

» More Top News
Traders work in the pits at the The New York Mercantile Exchange, November 7, 2007. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Calling the market

A spectacular credit bust, two devastating stock market crashes ... the smart call this decade was to play it safe.  Full Article 

Global Markets
People walk past a branch of Bank of America in New York's financial district April 28, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Rolfe Winkler:

Move your money

Boycotting "too big to fail" banks is a great idea -- so long as investors remember that banks aren't the only ones responsible for the crisis.  Full Article 

    Commentary