The Basin and Range Province is expanding at an average rate of 5 millimeters
(0.2 inches) per year. Over its north-south length of about 1600 kilometers
(1000 miles), the Basin and Range Province is gaining an area equal to one
football field per year.
If current cities had existed millions of years ago, Reno, Nevada would have
been located at half the current distance from Denver, Colorado. It would
have been a much shorter drive!