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Current time. 08:46, 10 August 2024 EST [ refresh] 09:46, 10 August 2024 EDT [ refresh] Observance of DST. DST is observed in parts of this time zone. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico .
East coast of Nauru island: 166°57′E 11 Federated States of Micronesia: Eastern point of Kosrae island (Kosrae state) 163°01′E 12 Papua New Guinea: Nukumanu Islands, North Solomons Milne Bay (mainland) 159°24′E 150°52′E 13 Japan: Minami Torishima, Ogasawara, Tokyo Nosappu, Hokkaido (Four main islands) 153°59′E 145°49′E 14 ...
The scheduling of television programming in North America (namely the United States, Canada, and Mexico) must cope with different time zones. The United States (excluding territories) has six time zones ( Hawaii–Aleutian, Alaska, Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern ), with further variation in the observance of daylight saving time.
At the time, it was the world's second most widespread blackout in history, after the 1999 Southern Brazil blackout. [4] [5] The outage, which was much more widespread than the Northeast blackout of 1965, affected an estimated 55 million people, including 10 million people in southern and central Ontario and 45 million people in eight U.S. states.
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean. The Thirteen Colonies, which formed the United States in 1776 were located on this coast, and it has played an important role ...
Intracoastal Waterway. The Intracoastal Waterway ( ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas.
The East Coast is 100 times less active than California when it comes to seismic activity, Forbes reported, and there is no reason to believe earthquakes will become more frequent in the coming years.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories ranked by their coastline length. 30 states have a coastline: 23 with a coastline on the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine ), and/or Pacific Ocean, and 8 with a Great Lakes shoreline. New York has coasts on both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.