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Greatest / highest / deepest "Greatest earthquake"
Chile, South America The honor of greatest earthquake of all time goes to the 1960. 9.5 on the movement magnitude and 8.5 on the MS scale.
"Greatest Volcanic eruption " Largest volcanic eruption of all time occurred over 1800 years ago in 130 AD of the coast of New Zealand. an estimated 33 billion tons of pumice which would cover over 20,000 square miles. "deepest ocean "
"Highest elevation "
"largest waterfall"
"biggest wave "
"greatest river " The Amazon is the greatest river in the world by so many measures; the volume of water it carries to the sea (approximately 20% of all the freshwater discharge into the oceans), the area of land that drains into it, and its length and width. It is one of the longest rivers in the world is between 6,712km/4,195mi long. "coldest place "
Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth was -129F recorded in 1983 at the Russian Base Vostok in Antarctica. Antarctica, a continent owned by no one, covers the southern end of our globe. "hottest place in the world" EL Azizia Libya is the hottest place in the world to live. on September 13,1922 the temperature reached a overheating 136 degrees F (57.8 C) "wettest place on earth" Cherrapunji India is the wettest place on the planet.Cherrapunji is 1290 meters above sea level "driest place on earth"
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The
Mariana's trench is the
deepest recorded section of the ocean measuring a astounding 35,813 ft/10,915m.
almost seven miles/11km
of water . The average pressure is 16280 lbs per square inch. That
would be like one man hold (50) 747 jumbo jets.
Mount Everest 29,035 ft/8850m, which was
confirmed using radar and global positioning satellite (GPS)
technology as the highest elevated surface on earth.
The largest water
fall in the world is Angel Falls. Angel
Falls plunges an amazing 3212 ft southeast
Venezuela in south America. The longest single drop off is 2648 ft (979m)
Lituya Bay on the southern coat of Alaska July 9, 1958
an earth quake triggered a tsunami that send an astounding wave measuring 1,720
ft (524m) .The wave was 600ft higher than the empire state building in New York.
The Atacama desert
is without a doubt the driest place on earth it is nestled along
the coast of Chile, South America - right next to the Pacific Ocean.
this amazing desert sees less than .004 inches of rain fall a year. Some places
of this massive desert have not had rain in over 400 years.