Magnitude 8.5 earthquake rocks Siberia last Saturday 9/27
Sat, September 27, 2003
MOSCOW (AP) - An earthquake rocked southern Siberia on Saturday, but no injuries or damage were reported, officials said.
The quake had a magnitude of 8.5, but the epicentre was 33 kilometres underground in Russia's Altai republic, which borders Mongolia and Kazakhstan, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Tremors were felt in more heavily populated parts of Siberia, such as the Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk regions