• Question: could the maldives be submerged underwater if the moon is destroyed

    Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Nate Bastian

      Nate Bastian answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      No, I don’t think so. The moon causes the tides, so the sea levels would remain more constant than they do today. Any bit of land that is above sea level at high tide (i.e., the Maldives) would remain above sea level.

    • Photo: Sam Connolly

      Sam Connolly answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      As Nate says, we’d just lose the tides if the moon was destroyed, so the Maldives would be fine. We need to worry a lot more about climate change, which is very likely to submerge them, even if we take action now.

    • Photo: Natasha Stephen

      Natasha Stephen answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Sea levels wouldn’t be affected much by the destruction of our Moon, we’d just lose the tides! Some beaches would be affected, including the Maldives, but it wouldn’t destroy them entirely, no.

    • Photo: Roberto Trotta

      Roberto Trotta answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Probably not — without the Moon we’d loose a bit of the tides, because they are strongly influenced by the moon’s gravity, but sea levels wouldn’t change by much.

    • Photo: Sarah Casewell

      Sarah Casewell answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Another one chiming in for probably not – the moon controls the tides not the overall water level on the earth.

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