The currently accepted theory for P-T mass extinction is environmental change triggered by the Siberian Traps volcanic activity. A paper<sup>[(1)][1]</sup> suggests that the Siberian Traps were caused by a hotspot created after an impact event on what was back then the antipode of Siberia: the Wilkes Land crater. > Thus, the impact may have triggered the “Great Dying” at the end of the Permian and contributed to the development of the hot spot that produced the Siberian Traps and now may underlie Iceland. However, another more recent review paper<sup>[(2)][2]</sup> mostly discredits this theory: > Finally the recent report of a 500-km-diameter impact structure of possible Permian–Triassic age in the Antarctic<sup>[(1)][3]</sup>, is based entirely on satellite gravity measurements, provides no geological context, and completely ignores the absence of any predictable regional and global geological effects from such a large impact event, e.g., the absence of any thick ejecta layer at nearby Antarctic Permian–Triassic boundary sections. Leaving aside the discussion of whether such a thing caused the formation of the Siberian Traps and thus the P-T mass extinction, **in theory, can an impact on one side of the Earth cause volcanism on its antipode?** Note that I'm not asking about *in situ* volcanic activity (such as the case of Sudbury). The impact also has to be reasonable in magnitude: I don't consider the moon-forming event that destroyed the young Earth as a reasonable impact in magnitude. <hr> (1) von Frese, R. R. B., L. V. Potts, S. B. Wells, T. E. Leftwich, H. R. Kim, J. W. Kim, A. V. Golynsky, O. Hernandez, and L. R. Gaya-Piqué (2009), GRACE gravity evidence for an impact basin in Wilkes Land, Antarctica, *Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.*, 10, Q02014, doi:[10.1029/2008GC002149][4]. (2) Bevan M. French, Christian Koeberl (2010), The convincing identification of terrestrial meteorite impact structures: What works, what doesn't, and why, *Earth-Science Reviews*, 98, Issues 1–2, Pages 123-170, doi:[10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.009][5]. [1]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GC002149 [2]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.009 [3]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GC002149 [4]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GC002149 [5]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.009