and go BOOM!!!!
2007-01-17 08:29:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
No I work in this industry and we don't go as far in as you would think around six or seven miles at most four miles would normally be considered a deep well. The worst that could happen is disturbing some hydrates (frozen methane) and this being released to the atmosphere with some potentially dangerous consequences. This happens on this scale very rarely.
2007-01-17 08:41:23 · answer #1 · answered by oslo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not likely, the crust is anywhere between 30km and 70km thick dependin on whether it's continental or oceanic crust. The deepest hole ever drilled into the crust was in the Kola peninsula in Russia near the Arctic circle and it's some 12km deep. This is just an isolated case, most mines never reach 1000m and oil perforations are not much deeper than maybe 3km.
So, no, we're not all going to go to hell because the Earth's crust tips over like a dingy in a hurricane.
2007-01-17 08:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by trucutu_dm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you reduced the Earth to the size of a basketball, took a pin and made a nick in the skin of the ball, you have, to scale, removed more material than every mine that ever was on this planet. No drill has gone deep into the Earth's crust. There is an awful lot of crust there.
2007-01-17 08:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As deep as out deepest wells are, we have yet to even scratch the surface of the Earth. The deepest well still has yet to penitrate the earth's crust, nevermind the mantel. It will be many hundreds of years before we will be able to drill deep enought to even enter the mantel. Once we enter the mantel of the Earth, we still have hundreds of miles of mantel to go through before we could ever get to the Earth's core. It is much more likely that the Earth will end with the Sun going supernova in a few billion years. Then the Earth will be a chared rock revolving around the Sun. Think warm thoughts.
2007-01-17 08:40:44 · answer #4 · answered by daddyspanksalot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deep?
The deepest mines are just a few 1000 of meters. The earth crust is about 60 km, and it is 6400 km to the center fo the earth, what mines constitute are not even scratches at the surface, proportionnaly speaking. You have more shaking around in a modest earthquake than any instability drilling and mining can cause, except perhaps for whatever may be just above the mine. Mine tunnels can collapse at time, but the effect is limited to the area just above.
2007-01-17 08:35:30 · answer #5 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not the Earth's crust, but many buildings have been (literally) undermined. Salt mines are the worst offenders. In Liverpool, England, many homes sank into the ground as water was pupmed into the ground and salt brine was pumped out, eroding the ground out from under them.
2007-01-17 08:38:52 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we've drilled under a million% of the area to the middle of the Earth, we've an prolonged thank you to pass. ultimately the gravitational stress in the Earth might get to be too effective to stand up to, so there are obstacles as to how a techniques we could pass.
2016-12-16 07:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think of how big the earth is with respect to how much drilling we do into it....one is a whole lot greater than the other.
I don't think our drilling will effect the crust in anyway.
2007-01-17 08:34:21 · answer #8 · answered by Kelly B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At present we have only scratched the surface . We have only gone 5 miles down in Iran Texas.
2007-01-17 08:59:16 · answer #9 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, don't be silly. The crust is much tougher than that.
2007-01-17 09:09:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋