Neftegorsk (Нефтего́рск) was an oil-producing town in easternRussia devastated on May 28, 1995, by an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, killing over 2,000 people and destroying 2/3's of the town, located on Sakhalin Island. Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... The term Eastern can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... Sakhalin (Russian: Сахалин), also Saghalien, 库页岛 (Ku Ye Dao, Chinese), or Karafuto (Japanese: 樺太) is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50 and 54° 24 N, in East Siberia, Russia. ...
The town of Neftegorsk is 60 km (37 miles) south of Okha, and had 3,176 residents prior to the earthquake.
The nearest airport capable of handling large cargo planes was 656 km (400 miles) to the south in the capital, Uzhno-Sakalinsk, and fog and poor roads made the trip to the north difficult and impeded relief efforts.
In Neftegorsk, a man walked the dusty road with his wife, carrying the tiny body of their child wrapped in a carpet.
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