126 yards? Sea levels receded 126 yards? A little more than a football field?
That’s a lot when you look at a contour map.
126 yards DOWN.....................
126 yards is quite a bit. There’s quite a lot of area of the earth that’s covered by ocean that’s less than 378 feet deep. Reduce sea level by that much and Great Britain no longer is an island, North America and Asia are no longer separated by the Bering Strait, Australia is connected to New Guinea and some of the islands in Indonesia, and probably some others.
Conversely, there’s also a good bit of low-lying coastal land with an elevation of less than 378 feet, all of which would become ocean if sea levels rose by that amount. Not positive, but we’d probably lose at least one state that’s increasingly red (Florida), but at the same time two blue states would likely be gone as well (Delaware and Rhode Island). Connecticut and New Jersey, I think, would survive, but they’d get a good bit smaller (there are some higher elevations in the northern part of both of those states). New Orleans would definitely be gone, but I’m not sure about the rest of Louisiana; it’d certainly be a good bit smaller. Elsewhere, the Netherlands and Denmark would be screwed. The U.K. would be reduced to mainly just Scotland, and most of the densest populated areas of China and a good chunk of Southeast Asia would be gone.