Ask the residents of Herculaneum, they might know...
What could possibly go wrong?
Ask the residents of Herculaneum, they might know...
My thoughts too. They have no idea what the pressure is down there..
However, the chamber wasn’t as deep down as expected: the project accidentally broke through into the magma vault, which eventually prevented any further attempts to drill, as the overwhelming heat (450°C or 842°F) destroyed the well.
It did, however, confirm drilling into a magma chamber doesn’t cause the volcano to erupt.
A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth. The molten rock, or magma, in such a chamber is less dense than the surrounding country rock, which produces buoyant forces on the magma that tend to drive it upwards.[1] If the magma finds a path to the surface, then the result will be a volcanic eruption; consequently, many volcanoes are situated over magma chambers.[2] These chambers are hard to detect deep within the Earth, and therefore most of those known are close to the surface, commonly between 1 km and 10 km down.[3]
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In Iceland, Thrihnukagigur, discovered in 1974 by cave explorer Árni B. Stefánsson and opened for tourism in 2012, is the only volcano in the world where visitors can take an elevator and safely descend into the magma chamber.[15]
Perhaps the people actually doing the work are many steps ahead of the people in the peanut gallery.
Pretty much my thought as well. From the article:
It did, however, confirm drilling into a magma chamber doesn't cause the volcano to erupt.
Hold my beer and watch me drill into this volcano! I don't think it will erupt.
LOL