  Koryak Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Коря́кский автоно́мный о́круг), or Koryakia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Kamchatka Oblast). With a population of 25,157 (2002 Census), about a quarter of them Koryaks, it has the second smallest population of all Russian federal subjects, despite being ranked 19th in size, at 301,500 km². Image File history File links Koryakia_Flag. ...
Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Russian: ; English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ...
Kamchatka Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ...
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Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ...
See also: Koryakia Autonomous District Koryaks, a Mongoloid people of northeastern Siberia, inhabiting the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk. ...
Here is a list of the 89 federal subjects of Russia in order of population according to the 2002 census. ...
Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Russian: ; English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ...
Here is a list of the 88 federal subjects of Russia in order of size. ...
The administrative center of Koryakia is the urban-type settlement of Palana. Urban-type settlement (Russian: , posyolok gorodskogo tipa; Ukrainian: , selyshche miskoho typu; abbreviated as in Russian and as in Ukrainian) is an official designation for a certain type of urban settlements used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union. ...
Palana (Палана in Russian) is an urban settlement and administrative center of Koryakia in the Kamchatka Oblast in Russia. ...
On April 20, 2006, Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula was struck by a major earthquake. The 7.7-magnitude quake had its epicenter near the village of Telichiki. The Koryakia branch of the Russian Office of Emergency Situations said some area residents were injured but there were no fatalities. April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kamchatka is the land of volcanoes. ...
An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from and is powered by the sudden release of stored energy that radiates seismic waves. ...
The quake occurred at about noon local time Friday, so residents were awake and not caught in their beds.
The United States Geological Survey reported a series of at least fifty smaller aftershocks in the area and immediately offshore. They ranged from 4.1 to 6.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ...
The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ...
Bruce Presgrave, a geophysicist with the U.S.G.S. in Colorado, said the quake was relatively shallow. He estimated that about 2,000 people live close enough to the epicenter to have felt its full force. Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area Ranked 8th - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ...
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Demographics Population (2005 est.): 23,800.
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See also: Koryakia Autonomous District Koryaks, a Mongoloid people of northeastern Siberia, inhabiting the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk. ...
Chukchi, or chukchee (Russian: чукчи (plural), chukcha, чукча (singular)) are an indigenous people inhabiting the northeasternmost portion of the Russian Federation on the shores of the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea. ...
The Itelmen are an ethnic group that live on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Federation. ...
The Evens or Eveny (formerly known as the Lamuts) (Ðвены in Russian) are a people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. ...
Historically, the term Tatar (or Tartar) has been ambiguously used by Europeans to refer to many different peoples of Inner Asia and Northern Asia. ...
The Kamchadals (Камчадалы in Russian) is a former name of the Itelmens, the native people of Kamchatka, used in the 18th century. ...
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