15 CRAZY FACTS ABOUT OUR MOTHER EARTH

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1. Earth is not a perfect sphere. The centrifugal force pushes the  Earth outwards at the equator giving it a slightly bulged.

2. While standing on the equator we would be spinning around the Earth’ center at 1000 miles/hr, but at the poles we would be relatively standing still and turning just in circles.

3. We are constantly moving around in space at 67,000 miles/hr.

4. The hottest temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth is 1360 F or 57.80 C in El Azizia, Libya, in 1922.

5. Likewise the coldest temperature every recorded was a bone chilling  -128.60 F or -89.20 C at Antarctica’s Vostok station.

6. Antarctica has 70% of Earth’s fresh water and 90% of it is ice.

7. Gravity on Earth is not well distributed around the earth. Places like Hudson Bay in Canada seem to have less gravity when compared to other regions mainly because they seem to have less land mass. But the balance is maintained by the retreating glaciers on the surface and the swirling magma deep in the core.

8. The magnetic North Pole of the Earth is moving northward at a rate of 10 miles/hour.

9. There is a belief by the  scientist that Earth may have had two moons at some point of time.

10.  But some seem to approve  that Earth has two moon’s because now and then there is an asteroid that gets sucked  into our orbit and keeps sticking  around for a continuous 9 months.

11.  Earthquakes are not the only quakes that cause  changes in the  Earth. The Moonquakes   also make a good difference by affecting  the tides of the oceans and seas.

12. The world’s longest mountain range is the one underwater. It is called the Mid Ocean Ridge System. It is 80,000 km  long which goes around the world and is 20 times longer than the longest mountain range on the surface  of the Earth (The Andes) and all the mountains are volcanic.

14. The oceans cover about 70% of our surface but we have explored only 5% of them.

13. The most active volcano in the world is the Stromboli Volcano in Southern Italy because it has been erupting almost continuously for the past 2,000 years. It has been rightly  nicknamed as “The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean.”

15. Made-up of millions and millions of tiny polyps, the Coral reefs are the  largest living structures on Earth and some can be seen clearly from space.