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<p data-start="156" data-end="271">Little Diomede Island (USA) and Big Diomede Island (Russia) how far Russia is from Alaska

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<p data-start="156" data-end="271">are located in the middle of the Bering Strait.

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<p data-start="274" data-end="343">These two islands are separated by just 2.4 miles of ocean water.

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<p data-start="346" data-end="500">The International Date Line runs between them, so Russia is almost a day ahead of Alaska, even though they&rsquo;re just minutes apart by boat or plane.

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Normalerweise k&ouml;nnen Meteorologenrandm tornado gef&auml;hrdete Gebiete durch Radarbilder und Temperaturdaten fr&uuml;hzeitig identifizieren. In diesem Fall jedoch trat das Ph&auml;nomen aus heiterem Himmel auf &ndash; ohne klassische Anzeichen wie Gewitterlinien oder hohe Luftfeuchtigkeitssch&uuml;be.