rt.com (excerpts):  Magnitude of Siberian quake raised to 9.5 (USGS shows 6.6 and needs updating).  The quake that struck southeastern Siberia late on Tuesday has been raised to 9.5, according to Russia's emergencies minister Sergey Shoigu.  The quake is the strongest ever to be detected in the region he said.  There have been no reports of damage or casualties since the tremor, initially reported as 6.7 on the Richter scale, struck a sparsely populated area in the Republic of Tyva near the R...
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