TELEMETRY Depth 0.0 km
0 1,593 3,186 4,778 6,371 km
TEMPERATURE Temp 15 °C
15° 1,500° 3,000° 4,500° 6,000°C
PRESSURE GPa 0.00 GPa
0 90 180 270 360 GPa
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Earth Depth
Geological Layers and Landmarks
How long is this experience? Albeit a smallish planet, Earth is stupidly deep from a human point of view. To show it accurately, we use a linear 1:188,964 scale. Every centimeter you see on your screen represents 1.89 km of real rock and core (or 2.98 miles per inch).
To reach the center of the Earth at 6,371 km, you are scrolling down a webpage that is 127,420 pixels long. Physically, that is 33.72 m (110.6 ft) deep, roughly the height of a 10-story building.
Earth Depth: Layers from Surface to Core (0–6,371 km) A cross-section of the Earth from ground level to the iron core, at true scale.
Continental Crust (0–35 km) All of Human History Kīlauea Magma Chamber Mponeng Gold Mine Deepest Living Organisms Yellowstone Upper Chamber Deepest Fish B. Rogers Borehole Mount Etna Hotter Than Venus Kola Superdeep Borehole Z-44 Chayvo Well Conrad Discontinuity Earth's Crust: 1% of Volume Lower Continental Crust Toba Supervolcano Yellowstone Lower Magma Reservoir Mohorovičić Discontinuity Upper Mantle (35–410 km) Axel & Otto Lidenbrock stopped here Yellowstone Lower Magma Reservoir Mohorovičić Discontinuity Peridotite Geothermal Gradient Kīlauea Deep Magma Supply P-wave Velocity Peak Approaching Iron's Melting Point Base of Oceanic Tectonic Plates The Kármán Line Equivalence Pressure at 100 km S-wave Speed in Upper Mantle Blast Furnace Temperature Diamond Stability Zone Kimberlite Pipe Origin Diamond Synthesis Pressure LVZ Velocity Minimum Seismic Low Velocity Zone (LVZ) Natural Diamond Formation Continental Lithosphere Base Iceland Mantle Plume Temperature ~1,500°C at 200 km The Asthenosphere — Plate Lubricant Harzburgite & Dunite Yellowstone Plume Root Pacific Plate Under Japan Coesite Stishovite Nazca Slab Hellenic Slab Caribbean Slab Azores Mantle Plume 410 km Discontinuity Transition Zone (410–660 km) 410 km Discontinuity Wadsleyite 520 km Discontinuity Transition Zone Water Reservoir Ringwoodite Farallon Plate Remnants 2013 Sea of Okhotsk Earthquake Pressure ~200,000 Atmospheres 1994 Bolivia Deep Earthquake Low Earth Orbit Equivalent Lower Mantle (660–2,890 km) Deeper Than the Space Station Is High Low Earth Orbit Equivalent 660 km Discontinuity Ferropericlase Deepest Earthquake Ever Recorded Subducted Slab Graveyard Columbia River Plume Earth's Mantle Tonga Slab Temperature ~2,000°C at 1,000 km Eiffel Tower on a Fingernail Ancient Slab Remnants Mantle Convection Scale Temperature Exceeds Tungsten's Melting Point Lower Mantle Rock Flow Mid-Mantle Seismic Reflectors Basal Magma Ocean Remnants Spin Transition in Ferropericlase Temperature ~3,000°C at 2,000 km Pressure ~100 GPa at 2,000 km P-waves at ~13.5 km/s Réunion Mantle Plume Hawaiian Plume Conduit Post-Perovskite Transition D″ Layer African LLSVP — 'Tuzo' Afar Plume Deep Plume Family Pacific LLSVP — 'Jason' Ultra-Low Velocity Zones Outer Core (2,890–5,150 km) The Planet's Own Nuclear Reactor Core–Mantle Boundary Liquid Iron-Nickel Begins S-Waves Stop Dead Pressure 136 GPa at CMB P-Waves Slow to ~8 km/s Seismic Shadow Zone Superionic Water Pressure Geodynamo Temperature ~4,000°C at 3,500 km Magnetic Field Reversals Outer Core Composition Why Compasses Work Pressure ~300 GPa at 5,000 km F Layer Inner Core (5,150–6,371 km) Lehmann Discontinuity Solid Iron Under Pressure P-Waves Speed Up Again Seismic Anisotropy Hotter Than the Sun's Surface The Inner Core Is Surprisingly Young Inner Core Rotation Inner Core ≈ Size of the Moon Innermost Inner Core Temperature ~5,400°C at 6,000 km Earth's Centre Same Distance as a Transatlantic Flight Centre and Back: Less Than Moon Distance ← Previous Ocean Depth 0 – 10,935m