On the morning of August 14, 2012, residents of the upper floorshigh-rise buildings in Novosibirsk felt that the floor beneath their feet swings, and the window frames slam. The first thing that occurred to the frightened people is that their city was hit by an earthquake. Novosibirsk has stirred up a wave of calls both to acquaintances and friends, and to the special service of the Civil Defense, which deals with emergencies in the local mayor's office. However, a preliminary inquiry to the seismologists gave a discouraging answer: there were no underground tremors under the city, and in general in the region the devices were not recorded.

Then in the occurred shocks the military began to blame: they say, they are using old ammunition at the Shilovo test site. The accusation was too heavy to ignore him, and by noon the official speaker of the Central District had issued a statement that no shells had been blown up on August 14 in the morning. True, the military acknowledged that they had disposed ammunition the other day, on the 13th. However, the "Destroyer P-40" system, through which the shells were eliminated, reduces the blast wave by 25 times. Therefore, as the service emphasized, only the residents of the villages closest to the landfill could hear muffled claps, possibly the rattling of glasses. But this could not be the trembling of the earth, which stirred distant Novosibirsk.

The earthquake really happened that day, butvery far from Siberia. At seven in the morning the sensors recorded tremors all over Sakhalin. The epicenter was located at a depth of 500-600 kilometers in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, 170 kilometers from the coast of the island. Seismologists even managed to classify the strength of natural cataclysm on the Richter scale - seven points. No damage was caused by any destruction, human casualties and the threat of a tsunami. And those fluctuations of the soil, which the inhabitants of the largest city in Siberia described, fit into approximately 2-3 points. So was there an earthquake in Novosibirsk, or were there any echoes of a natural cataclysm in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk?

For a long time it was believed that the region of Southern SiberiaIt is not dangerous in terms of tremors. But with the installation of seismological stations near the city, scientists revised their opinions. It turns out that between Novosibirsky and Berdskom quite often there are insignificant (1-2 points) tremors. And where it is thin, there and it is torn, as folk wisdom says. If there are small tremors, someday a major earthquake will inevitably occur in Novosibirsk.

In the spirit of the End of the World, the people of the informalthe capital of Siberia began to anxiously await the onset of December 2012, especially on the 21st. However, "Day X" was not overshadowed by any natural disasters. But since January 2013 the Altai-Sayan Geophysical Service has regularly received notifications about the tremors that threaten the region. So, the earthquake in Novosibirsk occurred on January 24. Its epicenter with a power of 5 points was in Gorny Altai, before the city came a wave of 2 points, lasting a couple of seconds. On February 10, a new surprise happened: again 1-2 points, but this time there are echoes from Khakassia, where the power of the cataclysm exceeded six points.

The last time the city was a little shaken 26February 2013. On this day, the seismological service recorded another earthquake in Novosibirsk. Like all the past, it was expressed in the rocking of chandeliers and the feeling that the floor is coming out from under the feet. The strongest tremors were recorded in 2003. Then the repeater tower - the tallest structure in the city - rocked for several minutes.