The two-and-a-quarter-mile-wide "debris ball" — the funnel at its center was more than a mile wide — damaged thirteen thousand houses and destroyed the Plaza Towers Elementary School, the Briarwood Elementary School, the AgapeLand day-care center, the agritainment Orr Family Farm (killing close to a hundred horses), and the whole of the Moore Medical Center.
The "after" pictures show the damage caused by blasts that punched through the tight city grid and spewed wide circles of debris.
Recycled glass is the mixture of different colored glass pieces collected from municipal and industrial waste streams and is often mixed with a wide range of debris including food remaining, plastic and metal caps, ceramic, paper and soil [5, 6].
It was down to Hubble and Rosetta to reveal the object's true nature - a large rock followed by a wide band of debris blasted off its surface by the impact of a much smaller object that was itself most probably vaporised in the impact.
The unbuttressed portions of the island (NW and SE) are characterized by the emplacement of wide and thick debris avalanche deposits (volume in the order of 1 2 km3 for each event) related to large-scale sector collapses, representing the most important and efficient mass-wasting processes making up the apron.
The monster storm formed a half-mile wide ball of debris made of several smaller tornadoes moving in tandem, with winds clocking in over 200 miles per hour.
It constitutes a frontal storm up to 60 miles (100 km) wide carrying sand, dust, and debris high into the air and is followed by a sharp drop in temperature and often by rain.
As detection methods improve we can expect to track a wider range of debris.
Ms. Begum, whose tale of survival in a wide pocket under the debris has made her a celebrity in Bangladesh, fielded job offers from many companies before accepting work at the Westin Hotel in Dhaka, said Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the local military chief overseeing her care.
For the wide acceptance of space debris mitigation measures throughout government agencies and industry, their cost-effectiveness must be demonstrated.
