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What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped Spinning?

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? Well, the speed of the Earth’s rotation is 1,037 mph at the equator, so everything that is not embedded into the bedrock would simply keep moving if the Earth stopped spinning — animals, people, trees, buildings, etc. The oceans would continue to rotate by ...

Troy Oakes

Planet Earth.