What Would Happen If the Earth Stop Rotating?

Earth rotates with a speed of 1600 km/hour. History shows the Earth's rotation slows down 2 seconds every 100 thousand years. This experiment is done by speeding up the slows down at 1 km/hour per day. The process will finish in span of 5 years.




The first symptom would be felt by the airline industry

Airplanes are using GPS with the help of satellites for their navigation. Satellites are rotating the earth along with the adjusted time on land. Slowing the rotation of Earth would cause the satellite positioning the plane wrongly and the plane will land in the places that are not supposed to. In other words there would be many airplane accidents.
Therefore flight would only be used for very special important purpose. Passengers were forced to seek alternative transportation. As a result, trains, ships, and buses are packed.



Other symptoms are an increase of the day's duration. The slowing of earth's rotation causes the day's duration to extend. 1 day would no longer be 24 hours but will increase to 28 hours after 5 months. The time can not be relied upon as well.

The world economy would be devastated. All the stocks would crashing.

The rotation of the earth makes the earth is not perfectly round but a bit wide at the equator because of its spin. The thing that widened is the sea clotted at the equator.


If the rotation slowed, the seawater will flow into both poles causing flooding in Europe and the tide at the equator.

Not just the sea, the air also flow into the equator of which will cause a rise in air pressure. Our lung can be broken due to breathing of such air. By contrast, in the northern & southern hemisphere are already like living in the mountains, the air is thin. Children and Old people is dying.


Flora and fauna life would be disrupted. The migrating animals could be confused with the days growing longer and eventually would die from heat/cold. Plants are also tormented by the sun longer than the usual and also by the long cold night.

In addition, an extreme geological activity would be happenning such as earthquakes and volcanic eruption in a location that is usually safe. The reason is the friction that arises by the different slowing of the movement of layer of the earth.

The earth's core rotation produces a magnetic field that protects the earth from solar radiation. If the rotation slowed means magnetic field is weakened and solar radiation would enter easily while the sun cream that prevent our skin from skin cancer would be useless.


After 4 years, 1 day = 13 normal days. All human beings have permanent jet lag, they can not sleep because it's still bright. Europe, South America, and southern Africa finally sank completely. In the equator appear a new continent caused by the reflux of sea.

People would moved to a new land that does not flood and still can breath easily. Ship would foundered into the dry seabed. International trade would not be exist anymore.

The weather became very extreme. Due to the prolonged sunlight, the storm activity could be long for weeks.

Finally after 5 years, the earth stopped completely but still evolving (around the sun). 1 day = 1 year, including 6 months of daylight that can reach 50 degrees Celsius and night temperatures of 6 months can reach until -50 degrees Celsius (colder than the poles now.)

The number of people who died reached 6 billion people (almost all). There may be fewer people who move into areas that flood doesn't go and with comfortable air pressure. The pole would be night time throughout the year. Many plants and animals would go extinct.

Thankfully this is definitely not going to come true because if it did we are already extinct. But this simulation tells you that the rotation of the earth is not just for a day and night but it made so many contributions to this planet, earth.