What If the Earth Stopped Spinning Right Now

We’ve always been fascinated by what would become of Earth and us if something disastrous happened. Have you wondered about it as well? Well, that’s why Hollywood makes so many movies about the end of the world. So what would happen if Earth suddenly stopped spinning (it’s really slowing down, by the way!). Let’s have a look at the incredible consequences that might follow one day.

What If the Earth Stopped Spinning Right Now

– We don’t notice the huge speed at which the Earth is spinning. But if it stopped, says Sten Odenwald from NASA, everything on its surface would be torn off the ground and fly east, eventually falling back down.

– The power of momentum would make the water in the seas and oceans move to form extremely powerful tsunamis. They would move east and clean the coastal cities off the face of Earth.

– The atmosphere would continue moving, and its momentum would make it rotate around the planet — probably several times.
– A sudden stop in Earth’s spinning would make the landmasses and water redistribute themselves to form 2 great oceans on both poles.

– The huge kinetic force of Earth and its momentum would shake the planet to its core. The result is quite predictable: all-powerful hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and destructive earthquakes would begin. Everywhere.
– If the planet stops, its shape will become more spherical.

– If Earth continued to make just one turn around the sun, only half of it would be heated. This will make it scorching hot and brightly lit with the highest temperatures at the equator.
– If the spinning stopped, the magnetic field would also disappear. The field protects us from solar wind: the charged particles from the sun that would destroy every single living being.
– Humanity would only be able to adapt to the new conditions on the border of night and day. Humans would have to live underground and only go outside in protective suits because of radiation.
– Professor Vaughan Pratt from Stanford University says the Moon would gradually slow down, too. And its distance from Earth would reduce. In time, it would probably just fall onto our planet.
– NASA calculated that day length increases by 2.3 milliseconds every 100 years. After billions of years, days would become several times longer, and then our planet will probably stop completely.