2023 Shovi Landslide
On 3 August 2023 at approximately 16:00 Georgia Time, local time, a landslide occurred in the mountain resort of Shovi in Georgia's Oni Municipality, at the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains. It resulted in at least 32 deaths and destroyed much of the resort's infrastructure. Reasons The disaster occurred during a summer season when the popular resort of Shovi in Georgia's northwestern highland province of Racha is frequented by tourists. According to a preliminary report by Georgia's National Environmental Agency released six days after the incident, satellite data showed a 500,000 cubic meter rock mass collapse near the Buba glacier in the Bubistsqali river gorge. This resulted in a 62-hectare glacial fragmentation and the release of subglacial waters. Data from the area's meteorological station and radar did not record intense rainfall during that time. On 1 August 2024, the Institute of Earth Sciences and the National Seismic Monitoring Center of Ilia Stat ...
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Georgia Time
Georgia Time (GET) is a time zone used in Georgia and it is uniform throughout the country. It moved from zone UTC+04:00 to UTC+03:00 on 27 June 2004, then back to UTC+04:00 on 27 March 2005. Georgia has not observed daylight saving time since 2004. The IANA time zone database contains one zone for Georgia in the file zone.tab, named after Georgian capital city, Tbilisi.Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), tz database: Retrieved 20 May 2021. In Georgia, it is called the Tbilisi Time (). Notes References Georgia Culture of Georgia (country) Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of pe ...

Air Medical Services
Air medical services are the use of aircraft, including both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to provide various kinds of urgent medical care, especially prehospital, emergency and critical care to patients during Medical evacuation, aeromedical evacuation and search and rescue, rescue operations. History During World War I, air transport was used to provide medical evacuation – either from frontline areas or the battlefield itself. In 1928, in Australia, John Flynn (minister), John Flynn founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Flying Doctor Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service), to provide a wide range of medical services to civilians in remote areas; these included from routine consultations with travelling general practitioners, to air ambulance evacuations and other emergency medical services. Fixed-wing aircraft, Fixed wing military air ambulances came into regular use during World War II. Helicopters became more commonly used for such purposes during th ...
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2023 In Georgia (country)
Events in the year 2023 in Georgia (country), Georgia. Incumbents *President of Georgia, President – Salome Zourabichvili *Prime Minister of Georgia, Prime Minister – Irakli Garibashvili *Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia, Chairperson of the Parliament – Shalva Papuashvili Rankings Events January * 3 January: Two Georgian civilians are abducted by Russian forces in the village of Koshki near the South Ossetian occupation line. * 9 January: ** In an interview, Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Kasianov reveals that Georgia had refused Ukraine's request for a transfer of Ukrainian-manufactured weapons systems granted to Georgia in 2008. ** For the first time in Georgian history, a nationwide minimum hourly wage is imposed for medical staff (set at 4.4 GEL for nurses and 7 GEL for doctors). * 12 January: ** Georgia and Armenia sign a visa-free travel agreement. ** Shota Tkeshelashvili, a career prosecutor, is elected Chairman of the Prosecutorial Council. * 19 Janu ...
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