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Volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure 4.3 × 10 7: Volume of Aswan Dam: 9 × 10 7: Volume of gas required per day by India in 2005 1.01 × 10 8: Volume of the Grimsel reservoir: 1.73 × 10 8: Volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland 2.05 × 10 8: Volume of material excavated in the construction of the ...
[citation needed] In the concrete and petroleum industry, however, a bag of cement is defined as 94 lb (43 kg) because it has an apparent volume close to 1 cubic foot (28 litres). [61] When ready-mix concrete is specified, a "bag mix" unit is used as if the batching company mixes 5 literal bags of cement per cubic yard (or cubic metre) when a ...
The population density was 30,239.2 inhabitants per square mile (11,675.4/km 2), fourth highest in the nation after neighboring communities of Guttenberg, Union City and West New York. [124] There were 19,915 housing units at an average density of 15,610.7 per square mile (6,027.3/km 2 ).
A study in the late 1980s by Polish historian Franciszek Piper, published by Yad Vashem in 1991, [231] used timetables of train arrivals combined with deportation records to calculate that, of the 1.3 million sent to the camp, 1,082,000 had died there, a figure (rounded up to 1.1 million) that Piper regarded as a minimum. [8]
The island is about 4 miles (6 km) long and 1 mile (2 km) wide, with a total land area of 4.2 square miles (10.9 km 2; 2,688.0 acres). [6] The average elevation above sea level is about 8 feet (2.4 m) and the maximum elevation is about 18 feet (5.5 m), within a 1-acre (0-hectare) area known as Solares Hill .
Carson City, Nevada, may have the smallest at 180-foot (55 m) square and 60-foot (18 m) streets, while Salt Lake City, Utah, is much larger at 600-foot (180 m) square blocks surrounded by 120-foot (37 m) streets. The most popular appears to be the 300-foot (91 m) square block with streets that are 60 to 80 feet (18 to 24 m) wide.
This half-mile (0.8 km) wide F4 tornado developed (as part of a tornado family that moved from Illinois to Michigan for 260 miles) during the late afternoon hours. This tornado produced the longest damage path recorded during the 1974 Super Outbreak, on a southwest to northeast path that nearly crossed the entire state of Indiana.