The NY Times has this graphic showing the extent of the surface oil slick as of yesterday:
The grid squares on the map are about 70 miles on a side (~5,000 square miles each), and the total area of the slick as shown is about three of those squares, or 15,000 square miles of ocean surface.
The estimates of the oil flow rate from the well of course have been all over the park. A story yesterday reports that an internal BP memo pegged the "worst case" flow at 100,000 barrels per day.
So let's take that "worst case" estimate and see how it comports with the NY Times picture.
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