Pacific Ocean disappears overnight

i got a question in class today and the teacher asked what would happen if the Pacific Ocean disappeared overnight. What would happen?

It would refill partway from the Atlantic.

someone said that and it was the wrong answer stupid

earthquakes and shiz

What? How would it fucking cause earthquakes?

You're relieving the ocean floor of the pressure it would normally be subjected to

Except that is literally exactly what would happen? Unless you phrased your question poorly.

If we take your question literally: the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Oceans would immediately begin rushing into the space left by the former Pacific Ocean. An absolutely massive deluge of ocean water would roll through the empty basin that was the Pacific, moving at hundreds of miles per hour. The speed and weight of these oceans means that the Aluetian Islands get eroded away as the Arctic Ocean empties southwards, the southern tip of South America gets sloshed away as the Atlantic drains westwards, and the straights and islands between Indonesia and Australia get carved out as the Indian Ocean rushes eastwards.

If it were somehow drained as a fulfilment of some comedic terroristic threat: global imbalance of food leading to mass starvation and a collapse of every first world economy. Water from surrounding oceans would fill the drained area and, as a result, oceans would be thousands of miles away from the coast, making land way more readily available.
If the world shrunk: everything would die from seismic activity and molten lava flooding the earth.

Besides causing massive climate changes and death (of humans and animals), I suppose it might also cause the Atlantic to become wider from the lack of force on the other side of the continents.

fish would probably die

In what context, like what would happen to what? Soes your teacher want a list of literally everything that would happen?How much of the Pacific ocean? Just the water? The seafloor too? Just what?

And to add onto this, now that I'm thinking about it: it's pretty well known at this point that the weight of the oceans on the earths crust contributes to tectonic factors. If the Pacific suddenly "disappears", there would an almost instantaneous series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, around the Ring of Fire especially, but all over the world too, as the sudden massive flux of water weight causes entire tectonic plates to buckle and lurch.

ALSO, the entire coastline of the planet has now receded many many miles downwards, with over half the ocean water gone. The atmosphere itself is lowered as a result of the much lower ocean level; people living in places like Denver, or the Tibetan plateau, or any city/country in high mountains (the Alps. the Andes), would immediately have only thin, Everest like air.

Your teacher sounds retarded. Tell her i said that.

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Good descriptions user. Please write sci fi book based on this story

why would anyone want to read scifi when you could read actual math and science.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth :^)

We have a precedent for this: the Missoula Mega Floods

the sci- tells the numbers side, the -fi tells the human side.

NOOOOoooo!!!!!!!

it would probably effect the Earths spin and wobble too

Assuming the water just disappears suddenly, leaving only vacuum behind, the first thing to happen within half a minute would be the atmosphere crashing down on the ocean floor with the average energy of 100 kg of TNT per square meter. The destruction won't be the same as from the actual TNT, as the explosives release that energy in a very short time, while the air would rather bounce around as a giant spring, but nevertheless it would send massive shockwaves to wreak havoc all around the world.

The water in the ocean disapeared or the entire pacific plate?

If the water disapeared there would be a catastrophic mass extinction event and if the plate disapeared then there would also be a mass extinction event but with lots more tectonic activity.

The pacific is slowly being subducted under north america and eastern eurasia as the atlantic expands.
In the distant future we may not have a pacific plate anymore, but the world’s geography will be significantly changed by then.