<p>Russian authorities estimate that the meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the sky over the Ural Mountains region caused more than $30 million in damage.<br /><br />"Around 100,000 homeowners were affected (by Friday's incident). The damage is estimated at more than 1 billion rubles (some $30 million)," the governor of the central Russian region of Chelyabinsk, Mikhail Yurevich, said at a press conference.<br /><br />He added that 30 percent of the windows shattered by shockwaves that rocked that part of the country, where temperatures Saturday dipped to -20 C, have already been repaired.<br />The remaining windows will be repaired over the next week, except for some large ones built in the Soviet era that will require weeks to fix.<br /><br />Yurevich said the building most seriously damaged by the shockwaves was the Chelyabinsk ice rink.</p>.<p>The meteor streaked across the sky some 80 km from the town of Satka at around 9:20 a.m. Friday and broke up. Shockwaves from the explosion affected several adjacent regions and even parts of the neighbouring Central Asian country of Kazakhstan.<br /><br />authorities estimate that 1,000 people were injured, most of them by flying glass.<br />Authorities Saturday estimated that 200,000 square meters of glass will need to be replaced in the Chelyabinsk region, where hundreds of homes have been left unprotected amid the frigid conditions. <br /></p>
<p>Russian authorities estimate that the meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the sky over the Ural Mountains region caused more than $30 million in damage.<br /><br />"Around 100,000 homeowners were affected (by Friday's incident). The damage is estimated at more than 1 billion rubles (some $30 million)," the governor of the central Russian region of Chelyabinsk, Mikhail Yurevich, said at a press conference.<br /><br />He added that 30 percent of the windows shattered by shockwaves that rocked that part of the country, where temperatures Saturday dipped to -20 C, have already been repaired.<br />The remaining windows will be repaired over the next week, except for some large ones built in the Soviet era that will require weeks to fix.<br /><br />Yurevich said the building most seriously damaged by the shockwaves was the Chelyabinsk ice rink.</p>.<p>The meteor streaked across the sky some 80 km from the town of Satka at around 9:20 a.m. Friday and broke up. Shockwaves from the explosion affected several adjacent regions and even parts of the neighbouring Central Asian country of Kazakhstan.<br /><br />authorities estimate that 1,000 people were injured, most of them by flying glass.<br />Authorities Saturday estimated that 200,000 square meters of glass will need to be replaced in the Chelyabinsk region, where hundreds of homes have been left unprotected amid the frigid conditions. <br /></p>