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Aid to Koryakia Funneled Again
The flights from Kamchatka to Koryakia have resumed after a day’s interval provoked by bad weather conditions, RIA Novosti reported Monday. The planes deliver humanitarian aid to Koryak villages hit by the earthquake.
The first An-74 plane of Russia’s Emergency Ministry took off Monday from the military aerodrome in Elizovo district of Kamchatka, heading for Ossora-village, where a temporary point of escape and a transshipment base for humanitarian cargo had been arranged.
The aircraft carried four tons of foods and electric equipment to Koryakia, where the work to rebuild buildings, electric mains and service lines destroyed by the earthquake is currently underway.
In Koryakia, three more shocks of earthquake were reported Monday after a period of relative standstill that followed the April 21 earthquake, which magnitude reached 7.8. The magnitude of the first two shocks was 4.8 and 6.7, while the third shock was estimated ranging from 5.2 to 7.0 under the Richter scale.
The region was promptly granted the federal emergency status, and Russia’s Emergency Ministry set up its crisis center in Tilichiki-village, which along with a few more villages suffered the largest destruction in Koryakia. The crisis center is controlled by General-Colonel Gennady Korotkin, who is in charge of the operations department at Russia’s Emergency Ministry.
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