With the ocean containing about 1.3e21 kg of water, dissipating 1e26 J of kinetic energy into heat would warm them on average by 18 degrees, ignoring heat conduction to the land and air In the tropics, where most of the energy is dissipated, that could easily see sea surface temperatures climbing above 50 C, which would enable storms the likes of which the world has likely never seen.
Something interesting would be a simulation of the 1861-1862 flood in the Western U.S. Would probably be difficult to model, but I imagine the results would be very fascinating.
If you stopped the SOLID earth, the oceans would boil and the entire crust would melt into a white hot global ocean of magma. Only the crust and the core of the earth are solid, the mantle and outer core would continue rotating while the crust and inner core remained stationary, the immense amount of friction at the interfaces would release an unfathomably enormous amount of energy. Everything on the surface with a boiling point lower than several thousand degrees would vaporize.
If your team could do what it would look like with a Cascadia tectonic slip, that’d be amazing to see. Living in the Seattle area I have always wondered how much my area would be impacted when that subduction plate slips from BC to California. Thank you for this great work
there is evidence that this already happened several times and will happen again, as it is part of our planets natural cycle. if you think about this your own little problems are not that prominent anymore :D
Those are small. The planet Earth has a rather slight equatorial bulge; its equatorial diameter is about 43 km (27 mi) greater than its polar diameter, with a difference of about 1⁄298 of the equatorial diameter.
Just discovered your channel and I love your simulations and how youz explain them also in detail. Its very fascinating and that video in particular - although highly unlikely - is horrifying. Interestingly though, when they fled in the 2012 movie, they also went into the himalayans to seek shelter from the monstrous waves. A sight to behold, if one would stand infront of such a monster wave.. with these mach speeds, it at least wouldnt last very long. 😀
I’m confused about simulation. Does it one 10,800 meter tsunami moving from continent to continent? Or does it show multiple tsunamis hitting the different continents as the earth stops.
what if the sun has a magnetic tide for (a hundred K years?) it pushes out an for another.. it sucks in what if this reversal causes Earth to rotate, one direction then the other this would cause quite a splash
What kind of phenomena would be capable to reduce Earth's rotation in so short time? A close fly-by of a massive object, even the size of the Moon, would do it?
Premise fail. You cant create a scenario where it just stops. Impact, and mass and solar pull eventually. Meaning you could dead stop it, with precision of the right mass and trajectory and speed. BUT! That impact wouldnt leave an atmosphere. Let alone an ocean or landmasses. The impact would annihilate the planets crust, and atmospheric shell. Now.. if you want to talk, crust release from the mantle, that is in lesson format from a solar weak shield, and a micronova blastwave. And has actually happened.
