The epicenter was roughly 500 yards from a drill site at the plant and at about the same depth — 1.5 miles — as a steam bed that the plant was extracting heat from.
About the same time, 900 miles away, in Frome, Somerset, my wife and I were going through the tortuous dance of securing a diagnosis of autism for our six-year-old son, Zac.
About the same time roughly 1,300 miles away, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were watching a house in Jackson, Miss.
"The area was over-flown twice yesterday by spotter planes to look at the sheen on the sea - that is about the same, at six nautical miles in length".
Members of both programs will eventually be able to combine their Continental and United miles in one account, and though individual experiences vary, the scant data that exists suggest travelers have about the same luck actually using their miles to redeem awards in either program.
By day's end, I'd covered 347 miles, about the same distance I'd driven on the Interstates.
Both of these regions are about the same size (40 by 100 miles [65 by 160 km]), and both are ancient upland plains that have been dissected by streams.
At about the same time, but thousands of miles to the west, a man in his 40s identified as Ya'coub Ould Dahoud, set himself on fire while sitting inside his car in front of Mauritania's Upper House of Parliament, the Mauritania News Agency reported.
Since there are 7 billion people on Earth and 91 people are expected to die every year from an asteroid impact, this works out at 1/77 micromorts per person per year – about the same risk as a 3 mile (5 km) car journey, but much less risky than riding a motorcycle for 60 miles (97km) in the UK (around 10 micromorts).
For example, Grand Marais on the lakeshore has an average July high temperature of 70 °F, while Virginia, at about the same latitude but inland about 100 mile to the west, has an average July high of 77 °F.
