Sentences with phrase «kilometers around»

The Mauna Loa record is taken on a volcano where CO2 leaks from ground for many kilometers around.

A regression - based forecast for September ice extent around Svalbard (an area extending from 72 — 85N and 0 — 40E), which uses May sea surface temperatures, the March index of the Arctic Oscillation, and April ice conditions as predictors, yielded a mean ice extent in September 2010 of 255,788 square kilometers around Svalbard.

Only the area within 6 kilometers around Mount Agung is closed to the public.

«It's excessive for Singapore to issue an advisory on Bali as only a radius of 6 to 7.5 kilometers around the crater of Mount Agung is considered dangerous,» Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said in a text message.

Most of the visitor - related sites are along the waterfront, but there is plenty to see and do for miles / kilometers around.

Five years ago, RHIC scientists announced that they had begun to understand the mash of melted protons and neutrons created by smashing gold nuclei in their machine, a collider ring nearly 4 kilometers around.

In 1972, 308 square kilometers around the reservoir were made into the Udawalawe National Park.

• Japan has established a fishing exclusion zone of 20 kilometers around the plant, which could be extended depending on the amount of radioactivity found.

The proposed project's accelerator ring would be 100 kilometers around and run at seven times the energy of the LHC

In fact, a plume of radioactive contamination would spread for kilometers around the stricken nuclear power plant, shifting with the wind and weather.

Instead of looking at the number of individuals using M - PESA, the researchers measured the rise in the number of service agents within 1 kilometer around each household — or «agent density» — during early rollout of the mobile - money services.

Not exact matches

But the main job of the booster is to accelerate the spaceship to around 8,500 kilometers an hour.

Researchers who conducted months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 2,300 - kilometer (1,400 - mile) reef off Australia's east coast found that around 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying, said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland state.

The project will cover 50 islands and 34,000 square kilometers — an area bigger than Belgium — between the cities of Umluj and Al Wajh to attract «luxury travelers from around the globe,» according to an official statement sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday.

«Oumuamua slingshotted around the sun on September 9 at a speed of 315,000 kilometers an hour (196,000 mph) and is now traveling out of the solar system.

Puerto Rican police said the incident occurred around midnight Saturday in the town of Comerio, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of San Juan.

RAYNE, La. (AP)-- A fire has broken out at a Louisiana chemical plant, sending massive smoke plumes in the air and prompting an evacuation for a mile (1.6 kilometers) all around.

All three died on February 2, the first around 2 am, the second at 5 am and the third at 7 am, according to police in the town of Boseong, more than 186 miles (300 kilometers) south of Seoul.

In their journey around Mexico, the relics will travel more than 22,500 kilometers (13,980 miles).

I'd go anywhere from 4:30 to 5:00 per kilometer pace, which I believe is around eight minutes per mile.

But taking along just a little extra fuel can then gently lower a ballistically captured spacecraft into scientifically valuable, standard orbits of around 100 to 200 kilometers like those achieved with Hohmann transfers — or even onward to the Martian surface for a landing.

From the official announcement: «Today, more than a billion kilometers of optical fiber around the world forms the backbone of modern global communication.»

* The earthquake struck around 10 P.M. local time about 50 kilometers east of Oklahoma City, and was felt from Saint Louis to Dallas.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

On January 22, a satellite designed to test eLISA technology settled into orbit around the sun about 1.5 million kilometers away.

Correlations among the three data sets revealed that temperature deep in the mantle varied between around 1,300 and 1,550 degrees Celsius underneath about 61,000 kilometers of ridge terrain.

In synchrotrons, electrons go whizzing around a storage ring a kilometer or more in circumference.

The crisis ultimately required the potentially permanent evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in a 20 - kilometer radius around the nuclear complex.

The maneuver slowed the spacecraft to around a mere 209,000 kilometers per hour, enough to be captured by Jupiter's gravity.

«To meet the 2005 U.S. electricity demand of about 4 million megawatt - hours with around - the - clock wind would have required wind farms covering over 780,000 square kilometers,» Ausubel notes.

Here's some reasons why: Venus's surface temperature hovers around a sweltering 870 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius), its surface pressure is about 90 times that of Earth (which is akin to the pressure a kilometer, or 0.6 mile, below the ocean's surface), and there are no seasons there.

An international team of scientists have been pouring over data streaming back from the Venus Express since April 2006 when it began surveying Venus, which at its minimum distance is around 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) from Earth.

Remote dams around the world already deliver hydropower via HVDC lines, including a 1,480 - kilometer (920 - mile) link that has carried energy from James Bay in northern Quebec to New England since 1990.

According to a 2013 analysis conducted by Packer, it is cheaper to manage lions in fenced reserves at around $ 500 per square kilometer (not counting the high cost of installing the fence in the first place) than in unfenced areas, where $ 2,000 is only sufficient for managing a population at half its potential density.

They did this using a jet of hot water gushing from the end of a Kevlar hose a kilometer long and as big around as an ankle.

In the real world, slabs are observed to behave in one of three ways: The slabs either stall at around 600 kilometers, stall out at the megameter boundary, or continue sinking all the way to the lower mantle.

Indeed, if land managers in Africa were as well funded as Yellowstone National Park, at around $ 4,100 per square kilometer, they could afford to manage the average unfenced lion population at around two - thirds its potential size, a step up from the current status quo.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

They then drew concentric circles around each site: one at 1 kilometer, one at 2 kilometers, and one at 3 kilometers.

The team found that even though El Niño starts halfway around the world, its effects are very localized in the city, changing from one district to another on the scale of kilometers.

Camel owners would jockey via joystick from the sidelines as the animals galumph around a kilometers - long track.

During the fall hunt, there are around 3.5 piles per square kilometer.

Railway tariffs cost about 0.15 yuan per metric ton for each kilometer, less than half the cost of around 0.35 yuan by truck, according to data from the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association.

At the grand bishop's seat of Gardar, 35 kilometers away by boat from the modest farm at Tasilikulooq, grass grows around the ruins of a cathedral, the bishop's residence, and myriad other buildings probably built by stonemasons shipped in from Norway.

Scientists» early warnings came true just a month later, when around 700 million cubic feet (20 million cubic meters) of rock slid into the Qinggan River, just two miles (three kilometers) from where it flows into the Yangtze, spawning 65 - foot (20 - meter) waves that claimed the lives of 14 people.

Initially launched in Europe toward the end of 2013, the BMW i3 is made in Germany out of carbon fiber and aluminium and has a range of around 160 kilometers.

Siding Spring's nucleus will come closest to Mars around 11:27 a.m. PDT (2:27 p.m. EDT), hurtling at about 126,000 mph (56 kilometers per second).

The Lance sailed east and around 80 kilometers from the small island of Hopen moored next to a large expanse of pack ice on May 2.

After 4 years surveying 12 square kilometers of land around the United Kingdom's Stonehenge, researchers have uncovered a sprawling complex of chapels, hedges, barrows, and pits surrounding the Neolithic stones, The Guardian reports.

Texas A&M was the only team on the track for all of the four main categories, which tested a car's electric - powered acceleration; general acceleration (fuel or electric); maneuverability and handling; and endurance — all over 22 kilometers (40 laps around the track).