As mass moves away from the axis of rotation, physical inertia increases and the initially fast rotation becomes slower. There are 86,400 seconds in any 24-hour rotation, a figure governed by the ...

That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from West to East. And that rotation is largely responsible for the distribution of every desert, forest, and swamp on the planet. So, let's do a ...

Earth rotated once around its axis on Wednesday ... It came against a long-term background of a gradual slowing of Earth’s rotation, caused by the the ebb and flow of tides, the flow of magma ...