I’d actually prefer a substantial acceleration, because then I’d be catapulted westward to the Pacific Ocean.
If it suddenly stopped, then I’d probably get tossed to the mountains about 110 miles east of me.
My only hope then would be to land in Big Bear Lake, which is a lot smaller target than the Pacific. ;-o
Also consider:
The Earth is traveling 67,000 mph around the Sun.
The Sun is traveling 448,000 mph around the Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way galaxy is traveling 130 miles per second through space.
Your thought experiment misses the implications in @gorillapaws summation. If what he states is correct, it isn’t you alone that would be set a flying at the abrupt braking of the earth’s rotation. The earth itself must fly apart. The mountains and oceans must also be flung into space along with anything defining the surface of the place. Rather than being propelled toward the Pacific, you must be tossed along with it.
If you put a bowl of water on a turntable then drop in a few grains of rice, you will see the rice initially sliding relative to the bowl. Eventually, the water and rice will be spinning at the same speed as the bowl, so will look stationary relative to the bowl. Same goes for people and Earth’s atmosphere. We have been going around with Earth since the beginning. Everything seems stationary relative to the ground.
@RocketGuy as you know, there still is a component of rotational acceleration. We may not “feel” it but that’s why your rockets are shot from Brazil and not Canada.
True, as one moves closer to the equator, one’s tangential speed increases. If you maintained a purely southwards path while coming from the north, you would feel the Coriolis Force as you were traveling. Most people wouldn’t feel it because we don’t usually travel fast enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force
@RocketGuyEventually, the water and rice will be spinning at the same speed as the bowl,
So that’s why babies don’t get flung across the room when they’re born! They’ve been in Mom, and Mom has been spinning the same speed as the earth! sorry 8^\