miles

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Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles west of Ecuador, a seafloor fault has been producing magnitude 6 earthquakes with striking regularity for at least 30 years.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Twelve miles down the coast is the little resort of Aberdyfi.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

The Optiq RWD squeezes up to 317 miles of range from its 85 kWh stores, which represents a non-trivial improvement in efficiency over previous GM systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

The Department of Energy thinks we need 7,500 miles of incremental grid by the end of this decade.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The team was running better than ten miles an hour.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell