Will we lose California?

[Woody]

Some feel that California will collapse financially. Others feel that California will collapse into the ocean.

Check out this view:

Will California eventually fall off into the ocean? No. The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 56 millimeters per year (the rate your fingernails grow). The strike-slip earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault are a result of this plate motion. The plates are moving horizontally past one another, so California is not going to fall into the ocean. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day be adjacent to one another (in approximately 15 million years)!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

[phkrause]

Yes it is dgrimm and rediculess (sp) at the same time.

pk

[Stan]

Well that will save the commute..

[LifeHiscost]

Well that will save the commute..

First time I've ever had a good laugh at "The Rest of the Story".

teehe

[phkrause]

Good one Stan.

pk

[Planey]

Yes it is dgrimm and rediculess (sp) at the same time.

pk

Sorry, pk, but how is this story ridiculous? Sounds perfectly normal and commonplace to me...

Graeme

[olger]

Well done.