Sentences with phrase «about a meter in»

And eventually something's going to give, and so the coastline that's been jacked up over 500 - ish years or so is going to drop about a meter in about a minute or so,» Chris Goldfinger, a paleo - seismologist at Oregon State University, told CBS News.

The concept was straightforward — design and build a robot that could pick up inflatable game pieces (triangles, circles and squares each about a meter in the diameter) and hang them on pegs protruding from walls on either side of the 8.2 - by 16.4 - meter playing floor.

Not exact matches

There's a meter on the wall that shows you how much time you have left, so you won't have to worry about running out of water while you're in the middle of shampooing.

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

For $ 1 million, you can only buy 16 square meters there, about 172 square feet — the size of a respectable walk - in closet.

Through slow, grassroots methods such as community meetings and bill inserts, Ontario's utilities have largely succeeded in informing the province's residents about what smart meters are, and how to shift electricity demand to lower their bills.

Gorilla cover glass, which is found in about 5 billion of the world's smartphones, tablets and other devices, can survive a fall from selfie - taking height — about a meter and a half — without cracking in most cases.

The Steel offers the same 5 ATM (as in «atmospheres»; it translates to a depth of about 50 meters) waterproof rating and the same 5 to 7 day battery life as the original Pebble.

One unit moved forward, the convoy remained in place, about 300 meters from the others.

In fact, one Boston University study of 19,000 people concluded that for every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of bad air, your brain ages about two years.

Dragon had about 111 million cubic meters of gas in storage on Monday, or just over a quarter of Tuesday's anticipated demand, having not received a tanker since January.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

They still control an estimated area of 600 square meters in Marawi and continue to hold about 56 Christian hostages, including Marawi Prelature's Vicar General Fr Teresito «Chito» Suganob.

All verses like this and Matthew 5:28 (where Jesus talks about adultery in a similarly harsh manner, are meant to do is point us straight to verses of Paul's such as Romans 3:23 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9: it's the evidence Jesus provides that, no matter what, even if we never murder a single person or in any way commit adultery, we're nothing without Him... and, oh, yeah, it's the meter that shows us who we are and why we need Him, and only Him (John 14:6), to get to heaven.

«We used to simply haul everybody over to Playa del Ray or El Segundo and do it in the ocean, but the city fathers squawked about extra lifeguards and whatnot, plus 10,000 to 20,000 people in white robes invading the beach area freaked out the surfers, so we decided to keep to our 100 - meter, fully landscaped reflecting pool behind the altar.»

In the 1950s about 1.3 billion cubic meters of water a year flowed into the Dead Sea.

Covering an area of approximately 10,000 square meters in the small town of Kankaanpää, about three hours by car from Helsinki in the southwest of Finland...

The new three - storey, 4,000 square meter Barry Callebaut factory is built on the premises of GarudaFood's biscuit plant in Gresik and will initially employ about 50 people.

After announcing he was hungover, he offered some pointers about «la curva» in the early stages of the 875 - meter course, and the most dangerous area, the narrowed entrance of the ring, where pile - ups of collapsed people, a «montón,» were even more lethal.

Jackson isn't shy about his speed, once saying he ran the 100 meters in 10.1 seconds and that he's the fastest player in college football.

With about 300 meters to run, Cauthen began pumping his arms vigorously in rhythm with the colt's lengthening stride.

Spending time with each other is the best way for you to talk about what's going on in your life with someone who gets you while also recharging your mom meter so you can face all of those tough parenting challenges with ease.

In my earlier post I talked about how it's not a trivial benefit that Workbar at Staples locations mean you can park in a lot without worrying about finding a parking space and feeding a meter (or worrying about whether your client or business associates can find a parking space and feed a meterIn my earlier post I talked about how it's not a trivial benefit that Workbar at Staples locations mean you can park in a lot without worrying about finding a parking space and feeding a meter (or worrying about whether your client or business associates can find a parking space and feed a meterin a lot without worrying about finding a parking space and feeding a meter (or worrying about whether your client or business associates can find a parking space and feed a meter).

If not you will have your nipples pointing in various directions (because once you begin breastfeeding your nipples become about one meter longer than BKs!

Each grazing cow that produces milk used in artificial baby milk needs about 10,000 square meters of land.9 Wooded land is cleared for pasture, leading to deforestation as well as depletion and erosion of the soil.

I just returned from vacation in a small town where the forest, although not literally DIRECTLY behind the hospital, does start only about 200 meters away.

If you feel the ticket was issued in error, information about the meter history will be available to a hearing officer during the hearing.

It is all of that, plus now it is also information about your heart rate and your state of health, plus your smart meter telling people whether your fridge is on or off and whether you are in or out.

After waxing rhapsodic yesterday about the Digital America state - level social media roundup, I must point out another clever digital critter that struck the local fancy this week: Slate's ongoing «Don't - Tread - on - Meter,» which measures that enlightened publication's view of how well Republicans in Congress are pandering to, er, fulfilling the desires of their Tea Party backers.

Even the World Bank pre-paid meters that were installed about 3 years ago have been deliberately damaged by AEDC personnel in order to continue to extort money from us.

INWOOD — Spurred by confusion about the city's new Muni - Meters among many Spanish - speaking drivers, Upper Manhattan community leaders held a walking tour in Inwood Monday to help explain how the new machines work.

NEW YORK, NY — Con Edison is warning customers about a scam in which a caller says the company will shut off power for an extended period unless the customer immediately pays a deposit for a smart meter.

In as much as they express worry about the cost of living mainly attributed to cost of power (faulty meters and tariffs) and availability of cash, they are optimistic things will get better.

They had gathered at the fuel station in readiness to march to the party's national headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra, which was about some 250 meters away.

Via Danny Finkelstein's blog, there is an open access version of Populus's message meter poll on Tony Blair's conference speech (i.e. where one turns a dial, or in this case a slider, up or down in response to how positive or negative you feel about a speech) here.

Van Meter noted that Weiner has about $ 4.2 million in his campaign fund and there are some matching funds that are set to expire if he does not jump into the mayoral race.

In the stratum that formed in 1816, about 110 meters down from the surface, scientists found the acidic mark of TamborIn the stratum that formed in 1816, about 110 meters down from the surface, scientists found the acidic mark of Tamborin 1816, about 110 meters down from the surface, scientists found the acidic mark of Tambora.

Dubbed Isthminia panamensis — a blend of the genus name of today's Amazon river dolphin and the location where the new species was found — the dolphin (artist's reconstruction above) was about 2.85 meters (9.4 feet) long and is thus slightly smaller than its modern - day namesake, the researchers report online today in PeerJ.

Their model confirmed the existence of a magma plume pumping about 150 milliwatts per square meter (or about 11 square feet) of heat up to the surface, and peaking at as much as 180 milliwatts per square meter in a region where a rift in the crust may exist.

For comparison, a typical stretch of land in the United States gets about 40 to 60 milliwatts per square meter of geothermal heat, and Yellowstone gets about 200 milliwatts per square meter.

Tropical monsoons in Indonesia and floods in the United States are both provoked by the Madden - Julian Oscillation (MJO), a process that results in pulses of clouds and precipitation moving eastward around the globe at about 5 meters per second.

A single carbon nanotube about two billionths of a meter wide can compete with the best materials of today at detecting ammonia and nitrous oxide, a gas often found in automobile emissions.

When the volume of a landslide exceeds about 1 million cubic meters, particles bouncing against each other create variations in pressure within the flow, with bits in some zones experiencing higher pressure than normal and others feeling below average pressure and thus sliding more readily.

That wind - driven circulation change leads to cooler ocean temperatures on the surface of the eastern Pacific, and more heat being mixed in and stored in the western Pacific down to about 300 meters (984 feet) deep, said England.

The telescopes are 16 - inch telescopes — tiny compared to what we often use for our research, telescopes that are 10 meters [about 400 inches] in size.

Just under 40 feet (12 meters) long and about 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) in diameter each, the 250 segments of one of KAGRA's arms extend into the distance in this westward tunnel.

To determine when fire became a routine part of the lives of the cave dwellers, the team looked at flints from about 100 layers of sediments in the lowermost 16 meters of the cave deposits.

One promising material is one that's filled with tiny holes that range in size from about a micron (10 - 6 meters) to about a nanometer (10 - 9 meters).

These spherical arachnids (pictured), most shorter than a millimeter, can trek up to 4 meters in the belly of a gastropod — about 2000 times farther than they can get on their own, according to a new study.