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

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

A shortcut: Check the dashboard menus to see their real-world miles per kilowatt-hour reading.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

We heard too that the Red Army was closer now than we had thought, only a few miles on the other side of Dresden.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo