Write title : the summary of the following passage. Suggest a suitable [Points: 2500 people feared killed - earthquake-7.5 on Richter scale - Russian town hit-town completely devastated - Okha town, 150 km north-epicentre damage - other towns suffered a damage] About 2,500 people were feared killed or wounded after a powerful quake completely destroyed the Russian town of Neftegorsk near the Sakhalin island, reports received here same. According to the Civil Richter scale. Defence Service of Sakhalin, the quake measured 7.5 on the Most of the residents in the city were sleeping when the tragedy struck in the early hours. Reports of destruction and damage had also come in from the city of Okha and several other towns in the region. Okha, a town of 35,000 close to the epicentre, had balconies falling in two five-storey buildings, broken furniture and cracked walls inside many houses. Two aftershocks followed the initial quake, Okhinsky District Governor Nayil Yarsulin said. "I believe that the damage will be rather big." Mr Yarsulin said, speaking on telephone soon after the quake. "I have been living in this area for 42 years, and it's the first earthquake of such force." The epicentre was located about 150 kms south of Okha and right along the coast, according to Eduard Kozhukhov, a spokesman for the emergency situation ministry. Neftegorsk situated about 90 kms south of Okha. The Okha district centre municipal spokeswoman, Raisa Mikhailova said that the town was completely destroyed by the quake. She said that 124 injured people have been brought from Neftegorsk to a hospital in Okha. Till 9 p.m. (local time), the bodies of nine adults and four children had been discovered. Ms Mikhailova said rescue teams from Khabarovsk and the Kamchatka peninsula were in Neftegorsk. Russian news reports said more than 200 rescue workers, six helicopters and more than 10 airplanes participated in the rescue effort, with more teams preparing to go to the area.
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