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What happened around Ukraine on 10 January 2020?
Summary
A look back at a minor earthquake in Zakarpattia and the news that framed it: the Iranian air crash and the TurkStream launch.
What was happening in and around Ukraine on 10 January 2020? The day brought a small tremor in the west of the country, set against two significant stories from two days earlier.
A tremor in Zakarpattia
On 10 January 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale struck in the area of Vynohradiv, in Zakarpattia region. No destruction and no deaths were reported.
The crash near Tehran
Two days earlier, on 8 January 2020, a Ukraine International Airlines (MAU) passenger plane crashed in Iran, close to Tehran. A total of 176 people were killed. The disaster was still the dominant story for Ukrainian readers when the Zakarpattia tremor was recorded.
TurkStream goes live
Also on 8 January 2020, the heads of state of Turkey, Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria formally inaugurated the TurkStream gas pipelines. The ceremony involved four countries in the wider region around Ukraine.
Taken together, the three items show how the period combined a loss of life abroad, a gas infrastructure launch among neighbours and a seismic event at home that caused no harm.
