In reality, the Earth's core's rotation came to a grinding halt in 2009, and now it is beginning to spin in the opposite direction, according to a surprising new study on Monday that probed the deepest research of our planet with seismic waves from earthquakes. That core may be on the cusp of a big shift. Seismologists reported on Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience that after brief but peculiar pauses, the inner core changes how it spins related to the motion of Earth's surface perhaps once every few decades
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 1:01
Well, that's a piece of information I was aware of at all and this definitely sounds intriguing because I had this notion that the entire of Earth spins in the same direction but clearly not. So I guess I need to look this up a bit to understand the science behind it and exactly how this is happening. But yeah, very very interesting and I really want to know what happens a few years down the line. Is it a common thing for us to shift directions in its spinning?