The meteor explosion over Russia's Ural Mountains Friday morning is recorded as the largest blast of a space object into earth. 

The blast close to the power of an atomic bomb shattered countless windows, damaging hundreds of buildings and injuring more than 500 people.

Russia's Academy of Sciences estimates the size of Urals meteor to be about 10 tons, according to the Associated Press. The speed of entry to be at least 33,000 miles per hour and it shattered about 18-32 miles above ground, showering meteorites that caused damage over a wide area.

The meteorite could be seen as far as 125 miles away in Yekaterinburg. "I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day," said Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains.

"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening," said Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk.

"I felt like I was blinded by headlights," said Viktor Prokofiev a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains.

Russian Emergency Ministry reported about 514 people to have sought medical help, mainly caused by glass cuts and 112 of them were hospitalized.

So far there hasn't been any report of any fatalities or anyone struck by space fragments.

"There have never been any cases of meteorites breaking up at such a low level over Russia before," said Yuri Burenko, head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Emergencies Ministry.

Friday's event was described as a "meteor shower in the form of fireballs" by the Emergencies Ministry and background radiation levels were normal.

At first Friday's rare event was thought to have been linked to an asteroid 2012 DA14, about half the size of a football field that will fly within 17,200 miles of Earth, however according to the European Space Agency there is no link between the two events.