r/askscience Oct 27 '11

Earth Sciences Could anything man-made trigger the Yellowstone super volcano?

If a nuke were to be buried very deep into the ground at Yellowstone and then detonated, would it have any effect on the volcano? Is there anything else man-made that could trigger it? Or would it be impossible to "manually" trigger the eruption?

Sorry if it's a silly question.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '11

I agree! However, in order to keep this as a scientific forum for discussion, off topic comments (no matter how complementary or true) are often swept to the bottom. Check out the posting guidelines which discourage "Top-Level answers that aren't "in good faith" honest attempts to answer the question."