KURILSK, Russia, Shawwal 19, 1432, Sep 17, 2011, SPA -- Four undersea earthquakes were recorded off Russia's eastern Kuril Islands and eastern Japan Saturday morning, UPI cited government officialsas saying.
None of the quakes produced a tsunami (...)
SAKHALINSK, Russia, Rabi Al-Akhir 14, 1432 H/March 19, 2011, SPA -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Japan was starting to get control of the situation at its stricken nuclear power station, Reuters reported.
"Our Japanese (...)
Sakhalinsk, Muharram 26, 1432 / Jan. 01, 2011, SPA -- Russia is sending three icebreakers to its Pacific coast to free three trapped ships, a captain said Saturday.
The ships stranded in the Gulf of Sakhalin, north of Japan, have a total of 400 (...)
Sakhalinsk, December 07, SPA -- A strong cyclone is sweeping over Russia's Pacific coast, a fisherman was reported missing in the high seas, according to Itar-Tass.
Despite the storm warning, a 45-year-old man went fishing by boat in the Tatar (...)
Sakhalinsk, Russia, October 06, SPA -- Twenty-eight new cases of A/H1N1 influenza were registered in Sakhalin over the past week, Itar-Tass reported.
A total of 46 diseased have been registered since the first case of the disease was revealed three (...)
Sakhalinsk, February 16, SPA -- Russia's Sakhalin Island has been hit by a powerful snow cyclone with snowstorms, the visibility on local roads is just 0 to 50 meters, Itar-Tass reported.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport is closed. The Vanino-Kholmsk (...)
Sakhalinsk, June 28, SPA -- A 5.3 point earthquake rocked the south of the island of Sakhalin last night, Itar-Tass reported.
The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismological station said the center of the earth tremor, registered at 04:44 local time (21:44 of (...)
Sakhalinsk, May 20, SPA -- Earthquake measuring 5.7 points on the Richter scale has occurred in the Sea of Japan 60 kilometers from Vladivostok, Itar-Tass reported.
The press service of the Far Eastern regional centre of the Russian Ministry of (...)
Sakhalinsk, Russia, February 23, SPA -- A snow cyclone has forced the air navigation authorities in the Russian Far East to close the airport of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the main air gateway to the insular Sakhalin region, Itar-Tass (...)
Sakhalinsk,Russia, February 18, SPA -- Electric power supply has been restored to 898 apartment houses with over 30,000 tenants on the Sakhalin Island after a cyclone, Itar-Tass reported.
Electricity supply is yet to be restored to 43 houses in the (...)
Sakhalinsk, Russia, February 17, SPA -- Power supplies to 36 towns and villages in the Sakhalin Region, disrupted by a powerful blizzard, has been almost fully restored by this Sunday, Itar-Tass reported.
Electricity has not been supplied only to (...)
SAKHALINSK, Oct 7, SPA-- A powerful cyclone with
violent winds is moving from Japan to the Kurile islands and Sakhalin. The
storm with heavy rains will hit the Southern Kuriles late on Saturday. The
wind speed will exceed 120 kilometres an hour. (...)
