A meteor crashing to earth in central Russia has terried thousands and and injured hundreds of people. More than 500 people have been injured.. Fragments of at least one meteorite were seen falling from the morning sky in the Chelyabinsk region at around 9am local time, around 1,500km east of Moscow. Witnesses described feeling a pressure wave and hearing explosions overhead as the object hurtled to earth. Windows shattered and there were localised power cuts, sparking panic among residents. The emergencies ministry said that 20,000 rescue workers had been dispatched to help the injured and locate those needing help. Still images from video shows the trail of a falling object above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk Five people have been seriously injured Almost all the video of the event was recorded on the ever-present Russian dashboard cam, a standard fixture for motorists in that country. This meteorite incidentally is not the one which has been predicted by NASA and is expected to pass some safe 17,000 miles from earth today.
