If the Earth stopped rotating instantly, we and everything on the surface would suddenly fly Eastward at roughly 800 mph and you wouldn't see it coming or care because your body, your house, your continent really can't survive being launched faster than the speed of sound. If the Earth took 48 hours to stop spinning, all the large bodies of water would march across the land Eastward and you'd be severely injured from constantly being slammed against the rubble of fallen buildings before being drowned, burned to death, or both. If the Earth took 1 year or more to stop spinning the atmosphere would become toxic from the Sun facing half burning off everything at the surface. You'd likely freeze to death long before a year came to pass from living in the dark and having hurricane-plus force winds going from the dark side to the light side, at the same time suffering toxic rain and snow coming from the high atmosphere on the light side. Anyway, the Moon would eventually crash into the Earth, so there's that too. It would be a miracle for you to live long enough to see it though, with the wild temperatures, the storms, the lack of potable water and anything to eat, then the lack of oxygen after too long. How fast you would die depends on how fast the Earth stopped spinning. Just ask the folks on Venus how they dealt with it....oh....never mind.
If the Earth stopped rotating instantly, we and everything on the surface would suddenly fly Eastward at roughly 800 mph and you wouldn't see it coming or care because your body, your house, your continent really can't survive being launched faster than the speed of sound.
If the Earth took 48 hours to stop spinning, all the large bodies of water would march across the land Eastward and you'd be severely injured from constantly being slammed against the rubble of fallen buildings before being drowned, burned to death, or both.
If the Earth took 1 year or more to stop spinning the atmosphere would become toxic from the Sun facing half burning off everything at the surface. You'd likely freeze to death long before a year came to pass from living in the dark and having hurricane-plus force winds going from the dark side to the light side, at the same time suffering toxic rain and snow coming from the high atmosphere on the light side.
Anyway, the Moon would eventually crash into the Earth, so there's that too. It would be a miracle for you to live long enough to see it though, with the wild temperatures, the storms, the lack of potable water and anything to eat, then the lack of oxygen after too long.
How fast you would die depends on how fast the Earth stopped spinning. Just ask the folks on Venus how they dealt with it....oh....never mind.