Wednesday, June 26, 2019

A Faster Earth (part 3)


If the speed of the Earth's rotation increased by 100 mph, regions at the equator would begin to flood as the oceans began to amass there. Regions such as the Amazon Basin and Northern Australia would be about 50 feet underwater. If the rotation increased to 1000 mph faster than its current rate, the centrifugal force would pull hundreds of feet of water down from the poles to the equator, flooding all but the highest mountain peaks in the regions around the equator. Oceans to the north and south of the equator would become significantly more shallow. Water around the equator would also be much less affected by gravity, filling the atmosphere with heavy moisture, fog, and clouds. What would happen, though, if the centrifugal force matched or exceeded Earth's gravity?

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