Is it possible to dig all the way through the Earth to the other side? – Anishwar, age 8, India When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if ...

Just to give an idea, when making a hole through the crust, for every 10 feet (3 meters) of rock, the pressure would rise by approximately one atmospheric pressure, as per the U.S. Geological Survey.

The City of Holmes Beach, Florida, enacts a new ordinance banning holes deeper than one foot on beaches to protect beachgoers and prevent sea turtles from getting trapped.

During a winter beach trip in February, a brother 9, and sister 7, were doing what some kids do at the beach, dig a hole in the sand. Then suddenly, without warning or even time to react, the 4 ...

My aunt says if you tried to dig a hole to the other side of Earth, this is what would happen: First, you’d dig through loose stuff, like dirt or sand. It might be a little, ...

Is it possible to dig all the way through the earth to the other side? The deepest hole in the earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in northwestern Russia, which extends 12.2 km deep ...

Digging a sand hole at the beach can be fun, but it can turn deadly when those sand holes suddenly collapse. Victims may suffocate. ... Other experts like Dr. Stephen Leatherman, ...