Flow rate (daytime peak)2,800 m^3
3.7 millionBottles of wine
66.7Living rooms
Per second
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Niagara Falls (Water Flow Per Second)
3,000 tonnes of water plummeting every second/Events & Phenomena
Niagara Falls moves roughly 2,800 cubic meters of water per second over the brink during peak daytime flow, which is about 3,000 tonnes per second. At night, up to 75% of the water is diverted through hydroelectric tunnels. The falls erode the cliff face at a rate of about 30 cm per year. In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers actually turned off the American Falls for five months to study the rock face.
Measurements
Water mass per second2.8 million kg
2.8 trillionGrains of sand
622,222House cats
23,729Dwayne The Rock Johnson weights
About 2,800 tonnes/s
Horseshoe Falls height51 m
28.3Taylor Swifts
72,857Pencil lead widths
1.3 hundredthsCentral Park lengths
Horseshoe Falls width790 m
198High jump bar lengths
144Giraffes
Hydroelectric power capacity4.4 billion W
880 millionUSB chargers
1.2 millionLawnmowers
2.4 millionDishwashers
4.4 GW (US + Canada)
Erosion rate9.5 billionths m/s
1.4 billionthsSchool zone speeds
19 billionthsEscalators
About 30 cm per year