Sentence examples for miles in depth from inspiring English sources

Second, the focus, or subsurface source, of the Amatrice earthquake was exceptionally shallow, at less than six miles in depth.

By mid-September, the Germans had retreated behind their great bastion, the Hindenburg Line, three miles in depth.

As another step, East Germany established elaborate security measures three miles in depth along its eight-hundred-and-sixty-mile border with West Germany.

Only 100m out, its volcanic shores plunge to a mile in depth - then descend even deeper to the abyssal plain.

In Lompoc, California, U.S., their siliceous remains have formed deposits of diatomite almost 0.5 km (0.3 mile) in depth, while at Mývatn in Iceland the lake bottom bears significant amounts of diatomite in the form of diatomaceous ooze, many metres in depth.

The defenders were deployed in a rectangle 45 mile in length and 12 mile in depth, with Afulah and Beisan 45 and respectively, from Allenby's front line.

With the battle at Kunu-ri ended by the night of November 29, the PVA 112th Division joined the 113th Division and the roadblock grew to 6 mile in depth.

The 1st SS Panzergrenadier Regiment was occupying a line from Franqueville to the western end of Éterville; the villages formed mutually-supporting strongpoints with dug-in tanks and assault guns, and the defensive line was 2 3 miles (3.2 4.8 km) in depth, supplemented by anti-tank ditches, weapons pits, minefields and other obstacles.

The sub explored the wreck of the Tahoe, a turn-of-the-last-century steamer that now lies less than a half-mile offshore in depths up to almost 500 feet below the surface of Lake Tahoe, which divides California and Nevada.

The typical trench system in World War I consisted of a series of two, three, four, or more trench lines running parallel to each other and being at least 1 mile (1.6 km) in depth.

The Forge River, which is about three miles long and ranges in depth from two to five feet, begins in the wetlands between Mastic and Moriches.