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City hit by meteor looks to Moscow

Divers search lake for space-rock bits

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: February 17, 2013 at 4:33 a.m.

Credit: AP
 A local resident repairs a window broken by a shock wave from a meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons (11 tons) streaked at supersonic speed over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured some 500 people and frightened countless more. (AP Photo/Boris Kaulin)

The big blast from outer space was still reverberating in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Saturday, as glaziers went to work replacing windows, divers vainly sought meteorite fragments at the bottom of a lake, doctors tended the wounded, residents found new ways to doubt the authorities, and seemingly everyone looked expectantly to Moscow for the flood of cash that rolls in on the heels of catastrophe.

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