Height (Horseshoe Falls)51 m
9.4 quadrillionCarbon nuclei
232TV remotes
1.5 thousandthsEnglish Channel crossings
About 167 feet
Photo by Edward Koorey on Unsplash
Niagara Falls
North America's most powerful waterfall/Water
Niagara Falls straddles the US-Canada border and moves more water than any other waterfall in North America. About 2,800 cubic meters of water plunge over the falls every second during peak flow. The falls erode the underlying rock and have retreated about 11 kilometers upstream since they formed roughly 12,000 years ago.
Measurements
Width (Horseshoe Falls)1,100 m
11,340Softball circumferences
220SUV lengths
333African elephant heights
The crest of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls
Volume discharged per minute169,920 m³
3.4 trillionEyedrops
17 millionWatermelons
5,149Shipping container volumes
About 2,832 m³/s peak flow × 60 seconds
Potential hydroelectric power4 billion W
2.2 millionDishwashers
2.1 hundredthsSaturn V first stages
About 4 GW; actual generation is shared between US and Canadian plants
Water speed at base32 m/s
1.03Cheetahs
10.7 millionthsPercent light speeds
Water reaches about 32 m/s when it hits the plunge pool
Retreat since formation11,000 m
733,333Blueberry diameters
3,333Hammock lengths
4.1 tenthsMalta lengths
About 11 km of erosional retreat over 12,000 years