As a result, the fault's behavior varies significantly along its eight-hundred-mile extent, with different segments responding very differently to the inexorable tectonic shearing between the Pacific and North American Plates.
No scientist familiar with insects has attempted to estimate individual numbers beyond areas of a few acres or a few square miles in extent.
One finds, nonetheless, 3.5-billion-year-old barite/gypsum-bearing evaporites up to 15 metres (about 49 feet) thick and at least 25 km (15.5 miles) in extent in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The Mediterranean island was formerly a British possession, but when it gained independence in 1960, the UK insisted on retaining two substantial parts of the island, Dhekelia and Akrotiri, 100 square miles in extent, for use as military bases; they remain British territory to this day.
The area is approximately 1.26 square miles in extent.
Most of the targeted area was three square miles in extent, bounded on the north by the over ground railway of the District line, on the west by the River Lea, on the east by the Plaistow Marshes and on the south by the Royal Victoria Dock.
They're a cubic mile in extent.
In the open savanna, a lion's roar travels up to five miles, proclaiming the extent of its territory: If you can hear it, get out.
The province is about 750 miles (1,200 km) in extent from north to south and about 400 miles (640 km) across at the greatest width.
Southeast Asia stretches some 4,000 miles at its greatest extent (roughly from northwest to southeast) and encompasses some 5,000,000 square miles (13,000,000 square kilometres) of land and sea, of which about 1,736,000 square miles is land.
