Re: [californiadisasters] Will California Fall Into the Ocean?

CA fall into the sea? That's not what I heard; I heard that everything to
the east of the San Andreas will fall away and CA will have TWO beautiful
seacoasts.

:)

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From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:24 AM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Will California Fall Into the Ocean?

> The USGS answers the age old question.
> By Mathew Luschek
> KNBC-TV Los Angeles
> Thursday, Apr 7, 2011 | Updated 4:39 PM PDTWith all the earthquake talk
> going around over the past month, some people still might be concerned
about
> our state falling into the Pacific.
>
> The USGS has addressed this burning question on their FAQ
> page.<http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?faqID=19>
>
> Q: Will California eventually fall off into the ocean?
>
> A: 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
> 46 millimeters per year (the rate your fingernails grow). The
>
strike-slip<http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary.php?termID=194>earthqu
akes
> 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!
> <SNIP>
>

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