.Quake of 5 pts registered near Russia's Pacific archipelago.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, June 13 (Itar-Tass) - An earthquake
measuring 4.8 points on the open-ended Richter scale has been registered
under the floor of the Pacific Ocean in the area of the Commander's
Islands, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said
Sunday.
The quake occurred at 02:48 local daylight saving time Sunday /14:48
GMT Saturday/. Its epicenter was identified at a distance of 45 kilometers
away from the village of Nikolskoye, the archipelago's only population
center located on the Bering island, or 500 kilometers to the northeast of
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of the Kamchatka territory.
The seismic focus of the quake was located 33 kilometers to 35
kilometers below the surface of the earth.
There have been no reports on victims or destructions and the
authorities did not issue tsunami warnings.

.EMERCOM jet taking 6 victims of violence in Kyrgyzstan to Moscow.

MOSCOW, June 13 (Itar-Tass) - An Ilyushin-76 jet of the Russian
Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ that took
off at 02:05 local time Sunday from the airport of Kyrgyzstan's capital
Bishkek is taking to Moscow six people who received severe wounds during
the violence sweeping the tumultuous Central Asian country.
The six need highly qualified medical treatment and will be admitted
to Moscow hospitals.
The wounded are placed in special intensive care modules the jet is
fitted out with and a team of ten physicians from the All-Russia Center
for Disaster Situations Medicine and EMERCOM'S Central Airmobile Rescue
Detachment /Tsentrospas/ is escorting them aboard.
"The jet is expected to make a landing at EMERCOM's airdrome in
Ramenskoye near Moscow at around 04:35 Moscow daylight saving time," a
spokesman for the ministry told Itar-Tass.

.Thousands of people fleeing homes in southern Kyrgyzstan.

GENEVA, June 13 (Itar-Tass) - Dozens of thousands of people had fled
their homes in southern Kyrgyzstan and are heading towards the border with
neighboring Uzbekistan in a fear of violence that has swept the southern
regions of the turmoil-stricken Central Asian country, the International
Confederation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies /ICRC/ said in a
report here Saturday.
International news services quoted Severine Chappaz, the deputy head
of the ICRC mission in Kyrgyzstan as saying that "things are getting worse
and worse by the hour."
"We hear reports of tens of thousands of people fleeing the fighting
and looting, and heading towards the Kyrgyz border with Uzbekistan," she
said.
"The electricity and /household/ gas have been cut off, meaning
there are also no water supplies," said Chappaz speaking from the southern
city of Osh, one of the epicenters of clashes and fighting.
"Shops and markets are closed, leading to fears of a lack of food,
especially in the hospitals and places of detention," she indicated.
The ICRC urges everyone who have taken up arms in Kyrgyzstan to
exercise restraint and to prvent bloodshed, said Pascal Meige Wagner, the
head of ICRC operations for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
She indicated that the Red Cross is gravely concerned by attacks on
medics and ambulance cars.
The sick and the wounded should have an unimpeded access to medical
aid, while physicians and nurses should be given an opportunity to do
their job in safety, Wagner said, adding that it is important to enable
the ambulance cars to move freely, too.
The ICRC is dispatching supplementary medical personal, including a
surgeon and a general practice physician, from Kyrgyzstan's capital
Bishkek to Osh.
Later in the day, an emergency support group is expected to leave for
Kyrgyzstan. It consists of experts in public health, logistics,
telecommunications, and food supplies.
An additional emergency relief contingent is due to arrive in the
disturbances-torn Central Asian country within the next few days.
Friday, the ICRC and Kyrgyzstan's National Society of the Red Crescent
provided medical supplies for six hospitals in Osh and the adjoining areas
to assist the treatment of big numbers of the arriving wounded people.
The consignment included bondages, glucose and anesthetics.
In the meantime, an emergency situation and curfew have been
introduced in the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions of Kyrgyzstan where clashes
continue between the people of Kyrgyz nationality and ethnic Uzbeks.
Data released by the Kyrgyzstani Public Health Ministry says the spate
of violence has taken away the lives of about 80 people and has left
thousands of others wounded.

.Gorely volcano in Kamchatka displays increase of activity.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, June 13 (Itar-Tass) - One of the Kamchatka
Peninsula's most active volcanoes, the Gorely, which located 75 kilometers
to the southwest of the territorial capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, has
shown an increase of fumarolic, activity, which does not pose any threat
to population centers right now.
Experts at the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences
told Itar-Tass, Saturday the volcano belched out a column of gas and
vapors to the altitude of up to a kilometer above its crater, while Sunday
the column rose to about 500 meters.

Permanent volcanic tremors
exceeding the background levels are being registered at the Gorely,
although no quakes that typically accompany eruptions have been noticed
yet.
However, a number of other factors testify to the activation of the so
far quiet volcano.
A team of experts from the Institute of Volcanic and Seismic Studies
of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences is getting ready to
go to the Gorely area to monitor the situation there.
This volcano, which is 1,828 meters tall, is much smaller than the
most famous volcanoes in Kamchatka, yet its eruptions always resemble
blasts.
The previous activation of the Gorely was registered in 1984 through
1986. Since then the volcano has been dormant.
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