Orders of magnitude (one cubic kilometre to one cubic megametre)
The following is a table of objects with volumes or capacities of between one cubic kilometre and one cubic megametre.
| volume (m3) | example |
|---|---|
| 1×109 | one cubic kilometre or one teralitre |
| 1.2×109 | approximate volume of rock ejected during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens |
| 1.3×109 | volume of Lake Biel, Switzerland |
| 2.5×109 | volume of Lake Walen, Switzerland |
| 3.2×109 | volume of Lake Zug |
| 3.9×109 | volume of Lake Zürich |
| 4.168×109 | one cubic mile |
| 5×109 | volume of crude oil consumed by the world in a year |
| 5.17×109 | volume of Lake Brienz |
| 5.2×109 | volume of the artificial Gatun Lake (Panama Canal) |
| 6.5×109 | volume of Lake Thun |
| 6.5×109 | volume of Lake Lugano |
| 1×1010 | estimated volume of rock ejected during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo |
| 1.4×1010 | volume of Lake Neuchâtel |
| 1.45×1010 | volume of Lake Lucerne |
| 3.52×1010 | volume of Lake Mead, the reservoir of the Hoover Dam |
| 3.7×1010 | volume of Lago Maggiore |
| 5.5×1010 | volume of Lake Constance |
| 8.89×1010 | volume of Lake Geneva |
| 1×1011 | estimated volume of rock exploded in eruption of Mount Tambora volcano on 12 April 1815 |
| 1.44×1011 | volume of Fedchenko Glacier and its tributaries |
| 1.33×1011 | volume of Lake Nasser |
| 2×1011 | estimated volume of the annual net inflow of seawater to the Black Sea (from the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus) |
| 2.8×1011 | volume of Lake Onega |
| ~3×1011 | volume of crude oil on Earth |
| 3.2×1011 | estimated volume of the annual inflow of freshwater to the Black Sea |
| 4.84×1011 | volume of Lake Erie |
| 8.37×1011 | volume of Lake Ladoga |
| 1×1012 | one petalitre |
| 1.1×1012 | volume of the Aral Sea in 1960 |
| 2.76×1012 | volume of Lake Victoria |
| 2.8×1012 | volume of magma erupted by the Toba supervolcano 74000 years ago |
| 4.918×1012 | volume of Lake Michigan |
| 5×1012 | volume of the Fish Canyon Tuff erupted by the La Garita Caldera |
| 5.5×1012 | volume of the asteroid 433 Eros |
| 1.2232×1013 | volume of Lake Superior |
| 1.84×1013 | volume of Lake Tanganyika |
| 2.36×1013 | volume of Lake Baikal |
| 5.5×1014 | volume of the Black Sea |
| 1×1015 | one exalitre |
| 1×1015 | volume of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which contains the deepest point on the Earth's surface |
| 2.6×1015 | volume of Greenland ice cap |
| 3.7×1015 | volume of the Mediterranean Sea |
| 3×1017 | volume of the Atlantic Ocean and volume of the Indian Ocean (rough estimates) |
| 4.5×1017 | volume of Ceres |
| ← one cubic metre to one cubic kilometre one cubic megametre to one cubic gigametre → | |
References
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