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The director of the Center for Analysis of Satellite Images, Hans Graber said the size of the spill is three times larger than previously estimated, and points that its size is as large as the island of Puerto Rico. The Saturday night or early Sunday new images will allow you to update the calculations.
The Center for Satellite Image Analysis (Cstars) at the University of Miami found that the oil slick caused by the flight of the platform that broke out in the Gulf of Mexico, tripled in size over the past few days and reaches more than 9 000 km . square, a dimension as large as the size of Puerto Rico.
Cstars The director, Hans Graber, said that "according to the latest satellite images we receive, the size of the spill is three times larger than previously estimated."
The oil spill began on April 20, after the bursting of the extraction platform "Deepwater Horizon ", located about 70 miles off the coast of Louisiana and belonging to British Petroleum had already tripled what was reported three days ago, said Graber.
On Wednesday, experts estimated that the macha covering an area of \u200b\u200bat least 2 000 600 square kilometers.
Although the researcher explained that the latest images taken by the Cstars "do not observe the entire area occupied by the spill but some parts," said "they are currently awaiting new outlets to update estimates of the total size of the spill "
specified that these images will on Saturday night or early Sunday.
"As the stain grows all the time, as expected is either larger than we estimated," said the researcher.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and reached the coast of Louisiana (south) on Friday and put in state of emergency in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, where he is expected to arrive in the coming days.
The U.S. government estimates that oil leak into the sea more than 5 thousand barrels per day, equivalent to 800 thousand liters, more than originally estimated.
However, the Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad Allen, who also was appointed to oversee national efforts to contain the oil disaster, said it is impossible to estimate accurately how much oil spilled
also warns that if the spill continues to grow without being guarded ocean currents may be beyond the spot calluses Florida and the U.S. east coast.
Meanwhile, the spill continues to progress and has already reached the delicate ecosystem of the southern swamp, raising fears about its effects on the environment.
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