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Aliens Looking At The Earth From A Certain Angle Would See Nothing But The Pacific Ocean And Assume That Our Planet Is Entirely Covered By Water

From our perspective, the Earth is pretty darn big and for most people, there is a massive amount of land to explore. After all, you can travel for days at a time without every running into an ocean, ...
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Why is the Pacific Ocean so big?

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Map: See where great white sharks frequent in the Pacific Ocean

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It’s commonly ...
The New York Times

Maps: Tracking a Tsunami in the Pacific Ocean

Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean off Russia’s northern ...