how fast does the world spin?

Answer 1

1,038 miles per hr.

Answer 2

The speed at which the earth spins varies upon your latitudinal location on the planet. If you're standing at the north pole, the speed is almost zero but at the equator, where the circumference of the earth is greatest, the speed is about 1,038 miles per hour (1,670 kph). The mid-latitudes of the U.S. and Europe speed along at 700 to 900 mph (1125 to 1450 kph).

Answer 3

If you'd ever seen Monty python's The Meaning Of Life,you'd know the answer!
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Answer 4

It turns 360 degrees in a day, 15 degrees in an hour which is 1 degree every 4 minutes.

The rotational speed of the Earth at the equator is about 1,038 miles per hour. The atmosphere at the equator is also slightly thicker due to rotation, and you weigh slightly less. At mid-latitudes, the speed of the Earth's rotation decreases to 700 to 900 miles per hour.

Answer 5

It spins once every 24 hours. Since the circumference along the equator is about 24,000 miles, that's 1,000 miles an hour at the equator. It is less as you get further from the equator.

Answer 6

The world is about 24,000 miles in circumference.
24 Hours for 1 turn =1,000 MPH
So that means while you are sitting there you are moving at 1000Mph.
But the earth flies through space at 65,000 MPH.
Blows your mind eh!!

Answer 7

Earth rotates once in 24 hours, and its (equatorial) radius is
3,963 miles (6,378 km). The rotational speed starts at zero at
either geographic pole and increases as you head toward the equator, where it reaches its maximum of about 1038 mi/hr (1669 km/hr). At 45 degrees north or south latitude, the rotational speed is about 0.7 of this maximum speed.

Answer 8

Earth spins once in about 24 hours. It is about 25,000 miles in circumference at the equator...so do the math. I figure in my head about 1042 m.p.h. at the equator. Agree?

Answer 9

Today it's barely moving, unlike yesterday. It was spinning out of whack.

Answer 10

It turns once a day.

Since the Earth is around 24,000 miles in circumference (approximately), that means it's going 1000 miles/hour.

Answer 11

1 revolution per 24 hours.