The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide,
hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.
The Philippines has been particularly hard
hit by extreme events, being the first
land mass that typhoons encounter on their usual track
westwards from the mid Pacific.