Sentences with phrase «kilometers offshore»

Radionuclides in seawater have been reported from the Fukushima plant's discharge canals, from coastal waters five to ten kilometers south of the plant, and from 30 kilometers offshore.»

The wind farm would be situated in waters 30 meters deep, 2.5 kilometers offshore.

Gili Palms Resort is located on the beautiful island of Gili Trawangan which is in a group of three small islands just a few kilometers offshore from Lombok.The resort was built in 2010 and consists of 14 rooms with en - suite bathrooms, air conditioning, led tv with dvd and our own power generator backup as the supply on the island can be quite unstable.

A few miles away is Crescent City's other lighthouse at St. George Reef, 6 miles / 9.6 kilometers offshore.

Rocks forming the northwesternmost point on the island today spilled from Waianae volcano, the older of the two long - extinct volcanoes that make up modern - day Oahu, so ridges extending more than 100 kilometers offshore from there were presumed by some scientists to have originated from that peak as well.

In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshore.

And their only means of monitoring the buildup of strain on the fault — GPS measurements of slow ground movement on land — was greatly handicapped by having the stuck patch 150 kilometers offshore.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

Perry suspects that the numbers of blue crab larvae, which spawn in open waters 15 - 150 kilometers offshore, will drop because of their exposure.

«We're feeling pretty good,» said co — chief scientist Sean Gulick in an interview from the deck of a drilling platform 30 kilometers offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shelf waters off the Pacific Northwest extend anywhere from 30 to 80 kilometers offshore and lie beneath the California Current, one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.

The mining activity was proposed for a 65 square kilometre region between 22 and 36 kilometers offshore.

Carlin summarized the substance of North Korea's statement on Guam as saying «We're going to put our missiles 25 or 30 kilometers offshore.

Guangdong already is the landing point for an 800 - kilometer offshore pipeline from China's own Yacheng offshore gas field south of Hainan Island.

Not exact matches

They will restore some exports immediately, as the offshore fields of Al Jurf (operated by Total) and Bouri (operated by Eni), lying 150 kilometers north of Tripoli, can resume production as soon as staff can be returned to the rigs.

Drawing on a centuries - long history of quakes of magnitude 7 to 8 rupturing various parts of the fault, members of the official Earthquake Research Committee had divided the offshore fault into six segments, each roughly 150 kilometers long, that they expected to rupture again.

A proposed 1,196 kilometer natural gas pipeline would run through the valley to connect offshore gas fields with North American markets.

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

They compiled 5 years of wind data from 11 offshore weather - monitoring stations buoyed along 2500 kilometers of the East Coast.

As detailed in an accompanying guide, NIST Disaster and Failure Studies Data Repository: The Chile Earthquake Database — Ground Motion and Building Performance Data from the 2010 Chile Earthquake — User Manual (NIST GCR 15 - 1008), the new collection contains tabular data on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the north.

New Jersey officials recently announced the state would help fund an initiative by Garden State Offshore Energy to build a 350 - megawatt wind farm 16 miles (26 kilometers) offshore.

According to their numerical 3D models of an earthquake and resultant tsunami on the Pitas Point and Red Mountain faults — faults located offshore Ventura, Calif. — a magnitude 7.7 earthquake would result in many parts of the regional coastline being inundated a few kilometers inland by a tsunami wave, with inundation in places greater than that indicated by the state of California's current reference inundation line.

These obstacles have delayed, and in some cases nixed, many projects — and so far, not a single offshore wind turbine is operating in the U.S. Organizers of Cape Wind, an offshore wind park to be built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for more than seven years.

Approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) offshore of San Jose del Cabo, the top of this seamount encompasses two football fields in area, creating a giant platform for viewing marine life.

About 70 kilometers to the south of Port Blair, the capital and main port of the Andamans, Passage Island features an offshore pinnacle — appropriately named Fish Rock — where two - meter long dog - toothed tuna compete with sharks for food.

The Belize Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs straddling the coast of Belize, roughly 300 meters (980 ft) offshore in the north and 40 kilometers (25 mi) in the south within the country limits.

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers (1.25 - 1.8 miles) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry air extends out over offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean.

The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square kilometres, within the Offshore South Ellwood Oil Field and stretching from the coastline southward more than three kilometers (1.9 mi).

In addition, the Cabinet agreed to ban offshore exploration within one kilometer on either side of the Belize Barrier Reef System, resulting in an additional 868 square miles falling under the offshore exploration ban.

Located approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) offshore of Belize City, Turneffe Atoll is just one of three coral atolls in the Western Hemisphere.

The Belize Blue Hole is located approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) offshore of Belize City.

Cocos island, which is the right word to use, is an offshore Pacific Island located 550 kilometers (340 -LSB-...]

It is located 550 kilometers (340 miles) offshore and it will take at least 30 - hours by boat to reach the island.

The East China Sea's biggest piece of offshore energy delivery infrastructure is a 440 - kilometer long oil and gas pipeline system connecting Shanghai to the Pinghu Field.

A huge Canadian ice shelf 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the North Pole has disintegrated, leaving a large floating island of ice stranded 30 miles (48 kilometers) offshore, scientists reported yesterday.

With an offshore wind carrying capacity of roughly 3 - 5 megawatts per square kilometer, the Kitty Hawk area could represent about 1,500 - 2,500 megawatts of wind power capacity.

The Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farms are set to be located 22.2 kilometers off the west coast of the Netherlands and will have a maximum capacity of between 700 and 750 MW — likely hovering in that middle area due to the potential availability of larger offshore wind turbines.

Photo: An offshore gas platform operated by Statoil ASA in the Oseberg North Sea oil field 140 kilometers from Bergen, Norway.