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He starts off with saying that "there is a line of magma that is 15km long and 9 miles in length."

Do you know why he would mix metrics like that?

Edit: he's talking about a rectangle and his wording, to me, implied that he was using X/Y coordinates to talk about how big the rectangle is. Except that it sounded like he was mixing metrics. Other commenters suggest that he's just trying to help us dumb Americans. That could make sense too, but wasn't obvious in his wording to me. 15km ~= 9 miles, I should have done that math. =)



  > He starts off with saying that "there is a line of magma that is 15km long and 9 miles in length."
The real explanation is rather prosaic: bad transcription. He doesn't use the word "and."

An accurate transcription would be:

  > there is a line of magma that is 15 km long—about 9 miles in length.
He's just (parenthetically) converting the units.


That does read weird

"15km long, or 9miles"

Would be much better

The mixing of 'length' and 'long' was odd.


> 15km long and 9 miles in length

This is not mixing. He's just presenting the length in two different measurement systems.


Isn’t he just trying to explain it for a wide audience? He‘s just translating units here.


For the benefit of the American viewers, who might not immediately know what 15km are.


If he had said 15km long and 9 miles wide my head would've exploded




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