On 06.02.2023, a severe earthquake occurred in Pazarcık district of Kahramanmaraş province. Apart from the earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, several earthquakes also occurred in the provinces of Adıyaman, Kilis, Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır, Adana, Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Malatya and Hatay. Following the earthquake, the Turkish Red Crescent has started the delivery of aid materials for Kahramanmaraş and all the regions affected by the earthquake. ​ We need your support to reach more earthquake victims and stand by them with our help, such as food, shelter etc. You can lend a helping hand to earthquake victims by donating any amount you want. You can donate 15₺ by sending an SMS to 2868, typing “DEPREM”. Basic Needs in Earthquake Zones Food needs: biscuits/cakes, tea, soup, sugar, bread, fruit juice, energy bars, flour, ready meals, hygiene products, pasta, rice, chickpea, oil, dried beans, red lentils, milk, baby formula, diapers Sheltering needs: tents, blankets, heaters, scarfs/gloves/beanies, thermoses/mugs, flashlights, thermal clothing, sleeping bags, bedchairs, foam mattresses, pillows. It is sufficient to write "EARTHQUAKE" or "DEPREM" in the description for donations made by bank transfer. We, on behalf of all the people in need, thank you for your help and support. You, too, can support the Türk Kızılay’s works by making financial donations for humanitarian aid.   How Can You Donate to Türk Kızılay? Via electronic process on the Türk Kızılay website using a credit card. Through the Türk Kızılay donation payments system and donation accounts (Bank Accounts) in the banks * For donate from Türkiye, Ziraat Bank Account Numbers; IBAN: TR 4800 0100 2110 0000 2868 5254 Copy  -  SWIFT: TCZBTR2A Copy   * For donate from Abroad, Ziraat Bank International AG Filiale Frankfurt Account Numbers; IBAN: DE26 5122 0700 1080 0000 01 Copy   KONTO NO: 1080000001 Copy   BLZ: 512 20 700  Copy  - SWIFT: TCZBDEFF Copy Through 168 Türk Kızılay free call centre and donation lines. For international donors, please dial 0090 216 168 11 22  From the Türk Kızılay Postal Cheque account number 2868 at all PTT Operation Centres, You can make donation from all the Türk Kızılay branches in the Türkiye (You can reach our Branch Addresses from our website). With Kızılay Mobile Application, Download App Store - Google Play You can track our donations by entering your Republic of Türkiye ID or donor code to the "Donation Tracking" section in the donation section on our web page. For more information about donations, please call the Türk Kızılay Call Centre, from Türkiye number: 168, from abroad number: 0090 216 168 11 22 Other communication channels for Institutional Material Donations; Türk Kızılay Directorate of Donation E-mail: bagis@kizilay.org.tr Türk Kızılay Institutional WhatsApp Line:+90 552 150 1868 https://www.kizilay.org.tr/Bagis/BagisYap/405/donations-for-earthquake-in-pazarcik Donation Methods Crypto Donation Account/Wallet Informations Türk Kızılay Crypto Donation Account/Wallet Informations  https://www.kizilay.org.tr/donation-methods/crypto-donation-accountwallet-informations

why not double the amount of parliament to 300.. so that the first comers can stay and a group of learners can start.. during the next periode exchanges and additions can take place for additional works.. an additional action group would be preferable.. these people could be send down as ambassadors to the community to increase interactions with residents and asgardians.. mayors from the top down.. Grtz,Dirk

When push comes to shove Asgardia will depend on engineers. Scientist talk, but engineers get stuff done. So far, too much of the discussion have been theoretical or arguing about what-ifs. We should have a forum for engineers who will ultimately build Asgardia. I don't mean to short-change scientists, but their theoretical model often need extensive workarounds to function in the real world.

A veces, todo se combina en un viaje, la gente, los paisajes, el momento, para que te enamores de los viajes. El norte de Perú es remoto, logísticamente difícil y muy alejado del recorrido turístico habitual. Es difícil moverse, sin vuelos internos y largos y arduos viajes por carretera. Sin embargo, se compensa con lugares como Ancash (https://seturismo.pe/ancash/) , la libertad, el amazonas, entre otros. Sin embargo, haga un esfuerzo para viajAR al norte de Perú , y las recompensas seran extraordinarias: impresionantes paisajes de montaña , vastos desiertos , bosques nublados brumosos y tres sitios nombrados como Patrimonio de la UNESCO . El verdadero desafío era convencer a que mi grupo viniera conmigo. Había estado antes, así que sabía lo que había en este lugar. Me maravillé de los sitios arqueológicos precolombinos vacíos , miré los picos nevados de la Cordillera Blanca , la cordillera tropical más alta del mundo, y me deleité con los colibríes y las vastas cascadas en Chachapoyas.. Pero, hasta hace poco, nunca había recomendado el área a viajeros internacionales de alto nivel. El verdadero lujo aún no ha llegado a esta parte del Perú, pero lo que le falta en los hoteles de lujo lo compensa con visitar lugares con casi ningún turista. Mientras que el sur del Perú sufre de turismo excesivo, el norte está felizmente vacío. . Un viaje de maravillas. Nuestro itinerario por el norte del Perú abarcó todo, desde la costa desértica y sus sitios antiguos ( Caral, Chan Chan y Huaca de la Luna ), hasta los picos de la Cordillera Blanca y la montaña más alta del Perú, Huascarán, a 6.768 m. Luego estaba el espeluznante Cañón del Pato, una ruta de 85 km que atraviesa 42 túneles desde los Andes hasta la costa, y el bosque nuboso, lleno de follaje, y las ciudades monumentales y los sitios funerarios de los Chachapoyas. Y, finalmente, la selva amazónica de tierras bajas, donde algunos de nosotros terminamos nuestro viaje con cuatro días de lujo a bordo del Delfin III , navegando por el río Amazonas. Si quieres conocer más de Perú visitanos en https://seturismo.pe

The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and western Syria on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction in both countries. The initial earthquake emanated from a fault 18 kilometers (11 miles) below the land surface. The shallow depth meant the earthquake produced violent shaking that affected areas hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter. The first quake was followed by a 7.5 magnitude event about nine hours later, as well as hundreds of smaller aftershocks. As news of the event spread, scientists at space agencies around the world—including NASA—began processing and analyzing satellite data relevant to the event. “These were very large and powerful earthquakes that ruptured all the way up to the surface over a long series of fault segments,” said Eric Fielding, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “This generated extremely strong shaking over a very large area that hit many cities and towns full of people. The rupture length and magnitude of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake was similar to the 1906 earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.” The preliminary damage proxy map above shows parts of the cities of Türkoğlu, Kahramanmaraş, and Nurdaği. Dark red pixels represent areas likely to have severe damage to buildings, homes, and infrastructure or changes to the landscape, while orange and yellow areas are moderately or partially damaged. Each pixel measures about 30 meters across (about the size of a baseball infield). The map is derived from data collected by the PALSAR-2 on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) on February 8, 2023. The satellite carries a synthetic aperture radar, a sensor that sends pulses of microwaves toward Earth’s surface and listens for reflections of those waves to map the landscape, including buildings. By comparing the February 8 data to observations made by the same satellite before the earthquake (on April 7, 2021, and April 6, 2022), scientists tracked the changes and began to identify damaged areas. The ALOS-2 data were provided by Sentinel Asia and analyzed by the Earth Observatory of Singapore - Remote Sensing Lab in collaboration with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. “The map covers only the central part of the affected area due to the narrow, 70-kilometer swath of the ALOS-2 fine-beam data used, but it includes the epicenters of both the magnitude 7.8 main earthquake and the magnitude 7.5 aftershock,” said Fielding. “Note that the time intervals between the ALOS-2 acquisitions are up to a year apart, so the accuracy of the damage proxy map may be lower in areas of vegetation, such as in the mountains, due to seasonal variations.” Some of the areas marked as damaged in vegetated areas may not have been damaged, and some areas showing no damage in vegetated areas may be damaged. Members of the disasters program area of NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences, as well as their national and international collaborators, are in the process of sharing the damage proxy map and the data used to generate it with organizations such as the U.S. State Department, the California Seismic Safety Commission, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief, and the World Bank. The team is also participating in ongoing coordination calls hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assess the needs of stakeholders in the region and provide scientific expertise to support risk assessment and recovery efforts. “We’re monitoring this event closely,” said Shanna McClain, the manager of the program. “In addition to mapping damage to the extent possible from satellites, we’re using satellites to track increased landslide risks, power outages, and weather that could pose challenges to response efforts.” As new data become available, the team is posting near real-time imagery and data products related to the earthquake on its mapping portal. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ALOS-2 data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/JAXA and the Earth Observatory of Singapore Remote Sensing Lab. Story by Adam Voiland https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150949/earthquake-damage-in-turkiye?&&&linkId=200843986. As new data become available, NASA’s Earth Applied Sciences team is posting near real-time imagery and data products related to the earthquake on its mapping portal.  Get the updates: go.nasa.gov/3jPsHTq

Each one of us knows what it is like to suffer natural disasters, we have all experienced this dramatic experience to a lesser or greater extent. Today, in two regions of the world that are close and politically distant, a situation has arisen where, once again, nature sends us a clear message. This message is: "I, nature, can make your life a misery, no matter what you do" and that is very sad to admit. Now, in the awareness of our humanity, we can realize that there are situations that urge us not to make the world less habitable unless the desire to prevail in war limits us to stop putting our brains into the actions that commit to evolving. For every human found in defending their space with weapons, nature imposes itself and points out that it is not necessary to have borders to prevent it from deciding to impose itself. Now there is humanitarian aid sowing optimism among the people who are suffering, it does not matter what race you are and that is the maximum test, analyze that in the face of a disaster beyond our strength, hands arise from everywhere to do what must be done regardless If you are an enemy, why has this been pointed out politically?