Judging by their data, the collapse of the hill occurred from 9 to 12 December.
Russian scientists continue to discuss the story of the "meteorite fall" on a hill in the Verkhnebureinsky region of the Khabarovsk Territory. The version with a space object is eagerly believed by the locals, who aroused great interest in this event. But scientists, on the contrary, are sure that no meteorite has recently fallen in the Khabarovsk Territory. Their main version is a landslide.
- There was no meteorite. This version is not just improbable, but false. There was no earthquake recorded, this suggests that nothing fell from the sky, - says Yuri Levin, director of the Sakhalin branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - The specialists who record all objects flying to the ground did not notice that something fell in the Khabarovsk Territory. Neither the fall of parts of the rockets nor meteorites were recorded.
Confirmation of his words is the data of scientists that no seismic anomalies have been recorded since December 9 to this day in the Verkhnebureinsky District and the Amur Region, but others have been noticed. This is reported in the Far East Center of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Research Center for Space Hydrometeorology" Planeta ". They also specified the days when the hill collapsed.
- Analysis of the data from the Sentinel-2A spacecraft for December 9 and December 12 made it possible to identify significant landscape changes that occurred during this period in the immediate vicinity of the Bureya river bed, above the reservoir, - the scientists of the Planet center report. - In the photo for December 12, part of the hill is missing, and in the frames for December 9, the shadow from this hill has a completely different contour.
It was on these grounds that scientists made conclusions about the approximate dates of what happened. They also noted that there is water in the completely frozen riverbed. According to experts, the ice was deformed by rocks. However, the most important in their analysis is the data on the anomaly in that area.
Judging by the data of scientists, the collapse of the hill occurred from 9 to 12 December. Photo: Far Eastern Center of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Scientific Research Center for Space Hydrometeorology Planet.
- Additional analysis of 10-minute images revealed a thermal anomaly there. It arose on December 12 at 9.50 local time, - said Lyubov Karamaeva, director of the DC FGBU "Research Center" Planeta.
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These data have already been transferred to the departments of Roshydromet, the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia, the administration of the plenipotentiary representative of the President in the Far Eastern Federal District, the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory, RusHydro, as well as the Amur Basin Administration. On their basis, experts will have to find out what caused the collapse of the hill. Help experts and information from the scene. An expert group of employees of the local Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, the Emergencies Ministry and geophysicists flew there this afternoon.
An expert on volcanic and seismic activity, on the basis of anonymity, told Komsomolskaya Pravda, he has another version of the reasons for the incident, which no one has previously voiced. He suggested that the collapse of the hill occurred "due to the human factor."
- Any person could come to the hill and arrange sabotage. What for? To block the mouth of the river from which water flows to the Bureyskaya HPP. The power plant feeds the Far East and partly China. Therefore, think for yourself why someone needed this case, - suggests the source of "KP-Khabarovsk". - I think that employees of the Investigative Committee with geologists and explosives should go there in order to understand everything.
At the power plant itself, they are convinced that there are no problems. Nothing threatens the operation of the hydroelectric power station. But what will happen to rubble, sand and trees in the middle of the river is still unknown.
MARIA IGNATIEVA