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To: montag813
"...34 million cubic metres of debris..."

If my arithmetic is correct, that works out to about 918 million cubic feet.

I can't even picture that kind of volume.

32 posted on 01/14/2019 4:51:16 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
I can't even picture that kind of volume.

Well, 918 million is just a tad less than one billion and one billion is 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000. So... imagine a cube where the length, width and height were each equal to about three football fields plus just shy of three end zones placed end to end (324 yards or 972 feet). That would be about the size of it....

58 posted on 01/14/2019 5:26:32 PM PST by hecticskeptic (u)
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To: Windflier

Yes - about. Interesting what a bit of rounding does to that number when you cube it. One meter is about 3 feet and gives your 918 million cubic feet. Less rounding, with 1m=3.28ft gives 1199.8 million cubic feet.

The huge Oso Landslide in the state of Washington four years ago was 270 million cubic feet. (Seeing that in person and how big it is - with this Russian one being 4.4 times larger!)

The building/hangar where they build Boeing aircraft in Everett Washington has a volume of 469 million cubic feet.

Mount Saint Helens after it blew lost about 278 BILLION cubic feet of material.


93 posted on 01/15/2019 12:44:05 AM PST by 21twelve (!)
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