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- The hottest day in Death Valley, California, occurred July 10, 1913. It was 134 F. But, the hottest on Earth occurred September 13, 1922 when it was 136 F in El Azizia, Libya.
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- The coldest day occurred July 21, 1983 in Vostok, Antartica, where it reached -129 F, without a wind chill.
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- Rocks can grow. Iron-manganese rocks in seawater will grow 1 millimeter every 1 million years. Your fingernails grow 1 millimeter every 2 weeks.
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- Over 1,000 tons of space dust enters Earth’s atmosphere and makes its way to the surface every year. Surface winds can pick up dust in China and deposit it in North America.
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- The Angel Falls waterfall in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet.
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- In 15 million years Los Angeles will have moved up next to San Francisco. The San Andreas fault is moving 2 inches per year.
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- Because of global warming Earth’s glaciers are melting and the spinning Earth is expanding at the equator, giving Earth more of a pumpkin shape.
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- The Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii rises 50,000 feet from the ocean floor. Olympus Mons on Mars rises 84,400 feet above land surface.
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- In 1557 an earthquake in China killed 830,000 people. In 1976 another one in Tangshan, China, killed 250,000 people.
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- In 1960 a Chilean earthquake measured 9.6 Richter and was over 1,000 miles long. In 1994 Northridge earthquake was 6.7 Richter, 60 people died. In 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan was 6.8 Richter, 5,530 people died.
- The Earth’s curst is 41 miles thick and it is 3,963 miles to the center of the Earth. The crust is thinner than the skin on an apple by comparison.
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- A billion years ago an Earth day was only 18 hours. The Moon was much closer and took only 20 days to orbit us. The Moon is still moving away at 1.6 inches per year and the Earth’s rotation is still slowing down.
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- Pumping of underground water reservoirs in California is causing the ground to sink 4 inches per year is some places. Disneyland moves up and down 2 centimeters each year with the water table.
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- The Nile River is 4,160 miles long.
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- Arica, Chile only receives 0.03 inches of rain each year. It would take 100 years to fill a coffee cup ( assuming no evaporation ).
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- Lloro, Columbia averages 523.6 inches of rain each year. My cup runneth over.
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- The Grand Canyon is Earth’s largest, it is 277 miles long. But, Snake River Hell’s Canyon is deeper 8,000 feet versus Grand Canyon’s 6,000 feet.
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- The Earth has 540 volcanoes on land. We do not know how many are under the oceans.
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- Yosemite Falls is 2,425 feet.
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- 97% of the Earth’s water is saltwater in the oceans. Only 3% is fresh water and 70% of that is in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland.
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- The temperature of the Earth increases 36 F for every 0.62 miles you drill down. When you get to the center it is 7,000 F.
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- 3/4ths of the Earth’s surface is volcanic rock, including my back yard.
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- The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is 6.9 miles deep.
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- During a tornado in Oklahoma, May 1999, winds were clocked at 318 miles per hour.
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- Lake Baikal in Siberia is 5,712 feet deep and contains 20% or Earth’s fresh water (not ice).
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- Earth has a lightning strike 6,000 times every minute.
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- Antarctica holds 90% of Earth’s ice, and 70% of its fresh water. If it all melts the oceans would rise 220 feet.
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- In the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, the tides rise 38.4 feet.
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- More than 193,000 tons of gold have been mined to date. That’s a lot of wedding rings.
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- The creosote bush in the Mojave Desert lives to be over 10,000 years old.
- Lake Tahoe is 1,600 feet deep.
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- The Earth broke up into the 5 continents only 225 million years ago.
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- Alaska has the most northern, most western, and most eastern points in the United States. Hawaii has the most southern point. The eastern most point is Semisopochoe, Alaska, in the Aleutian islands.
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- Other Reviews about our Mother Earth:
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- 2383 - measurements from ICESat satellite.
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- 2033 - The Earth is doomed. Also lists 10 more reviews about the Earth, an amazing place to live.
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- 1785 - measurements from the Space Station.
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- 1721 - the closets stars and more perfect Earths.
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- 1401 - a satellite sees the loss of ground water.
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- 1295 - how the Earth was formed?
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- 1256 - why do I have earthquake insurance?
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- 1190 - thank your children for all the resource you consume.
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- 537 - the Garden of Eden
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- 511 - the density of the Earth?
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