Hanzo!!! Kilauea's Erupting (discussion thread)

No, the whole process of fracking involves pumping chemicals and water deep in the ground to force open fracture points. When you introduce water to magma, it erupts violently. They're not creating voids, they are pumping in harmful liquids to retrieve oil and gas and the weak points created cause a destabilization which often leads to tremors and quakes, which is the movement of plates. The entire crust/mantle is under tension, the planet is much like a living being in this regard. If humans create a few hundred thousand holes here and there, trust me -the Earth is going to react and the space will eventually be taken up by something.

From my understanding of sinkholes and volcanic tunnels/tubules, is sinkholes form when there's a weak spot, usually composed of sedimentary rocks which wear away due to erosion, or there's a natural pocket underneath the crust which gives way after water seeps into it and is heated from geothermal processes, creating steam, thus hastening the collapse. Volcanic tunnels are more simple, being a channel for the magma to flow and the surrounding material is more dense and has cooled. These can become active again in more volatile regions since they are still linked to a system linked to a "hotspot", which is a weak point (or pressure point) in the Earth's mantle.

The gravitational forces are too great to be sensed easily, but the planet is far more vast than you give credit. Everything is being pulled inward due to gravity, and this force is only a part of the perceived centrifugal forces you speak of. In fact, I do believe it actually lends itself to the process if I'm not mistaken. I think I can give you an idea of what I am referring to. In ballistics, one element to the Coriolis force is how a bullets trajectory, to be more precise, its impact point, changes by up to a few inches or more at 1,000 yards. This effect is even greater nearer to the equator. If you were shooting toward the East in the Northern Hemisphere, because your bullet is turning to the right, it would impact further to the right. But, think about that for a moment. The 'void' areas you speak of are not going to compress due to the rotation of the planet because they are not under compression due to rotation and the whole surface of the Earth (in relation to its rotation) is under the same pressure, which is that of relative gravity. The only exception would be energy stored within the plates, but that's all plate tectonics and there's no certainty involved with assuming the sinkhole in question will even be affected because it may be surrounded by sub-plates or mountain ranges, a massive field of granite, etc. The planet isn't like a balloon, where it deflates if a hole is punched into it, in this argument it would function more like a foam ball with moving pieces of foam inside. You can poke a hole in it and nothing changes, unless you were to poke a hole all the way to the core, and that would be fun...impossible, but fun. Then we would have a foam ball with moving pieces of foam inside and a super hot liquid foam super jet.

 

I'm really more like a really smart special needs kid than "informative", but you're quite welcome!

 

Of course, they are all on the same planet.

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