Sentences with phrase «mile wide swath»

The Washington Post reported, «[EDF] has reached out to Ingersoll and others in the commercial space business to create a device that will be able to measure methane emissions on a 125 - mile wide swath with pixel resolution of less than five - eighths of a mile.»

(this is equal to a one - quarter mile wide swath of destruction from New York to San Francisco — it is also significantly underestimated).

The disintegration of the permafrost was visible in 40 - to 60 - mile wide swaths of terrain, showing that, «extensive landscapes remain poised for major climate - driven change.»

Not exact matches

The microburst had maximum wind speeds of 80 to 90 miles per hour impacted a swath three miles wide and four miles long in the area.

Water once flowed freely from the lake to the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles south, creating the Everglades, the extraordinary 50 - mile - wide swath of marshes that author and environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas memorably called a «river of grass.»

The tornado that plowed a wide swath of death and destruction through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday unleashed winds of up to 198 miles per hour, federal forecasters said yesterday.

Seismic energy travels through different types of rock at different speeds, and by combining datasets that covered a 500 - mile - wide swath of the Andean Plateau, Ward and Delph were able to resolve large plutonic volumes that had previously been seen only in pieces.

Like the three other big outer - solar - system objects discovered in the past three years — including 560 - mile - wide Varuna, found in 2000 — Quaoar resides in the Kuiper belt, a wide swath of asteroids located past Neptune.

He was stopped short by a mile - wide swath of bedrock containing ankylosaur prints that were closely spaced, indicating that the armored plant - eating dinosaurs once congregated there in large numbers.

Today it covers a 400 - mile - wide swath from Minnesota to Florida.

Today, we need look no further than the New Jersey - size dead zone that forms each summer in the Mississippi River Delta, or the thousand - mile - wide swath of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to see that this «dilution» policy has helped place a once flourishing ocean ecosystem on the brink of collapse.

On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, cutting a mile - wide swath of destruction that ultimately left 150 dead and destroyed many more homes and livelihoods.

In contrast, he says, the swath of damage from the bleaching event was «500 miles wide.»

There will be SWATH CUT THRU MANE THAt will be two to three MILES WIDE with a TRANSMISSION LINE RUNNING RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE!!