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Oct 20, 2023 · The Kola Superdeep Borehole, located in Russia, is the world's deepest man-made hole, reaching a depth of 40,230 feet (12,262 meters) or 7.6 miles (12.2 kilometers), surpassing the depth of the Mariana Trench and the height of Mount Everest. The drilling project, initiated by the Soviets in 1970, revealed unexpected findings such as the absence ...
The Kola Superdeep Borehole ( Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина, romanized : Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina) SG-3 [a] is the result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District, near the Russian border with Norway, on the Kola Peninsula. The project attempted to drill ...
- 1995
- Pechengsky District
- 1965
- Murmansk Oblast
Nov 10, 2009 · The deepest hole is called “SG-3,” and though just nine inches in diameter, it extends down a staggering 7.5 miles. That’s roughly a third of the way through the Baltic continental crust.
Sep 4, 2020 · The dramatic 30-meter (100-feet) deep hole in Western Siberia is the latest of several to have formed in the region since 2014. Scientists think the craters are formed by an explosive buildup of ...
Jul 22, 2016 · Lying below a small, nondescript rusty cap in Murmansk, Russia, is the deepest hole ever drilled, reaching a whopping 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) into the Earth's crust. Known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the human-made hole seems like it should be leftover from a failed oil well, but it's actually the result of over 20 years of Cold War ...
May 6, 2019 · According to some, this is the entrance to hell. This is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest manmade hole on Earth and deepest artificial point on Earth. The 40,230ft-deep (12.2km ...
Its debris strewn across the ground. At the foot of the tower, a metal lid of sorts, an arm’s length in diameter, welded and sealed with metal screws, thick, heavy, rusted. Underneath: The entrance to the deepest artificial hole on Earth. “The world is deep: and deeper than day has ever comprehended,” writes Nietzsche in Thus Spoke ...
