San Andreas fault could cause coast to instantly sink below sea level

[theHawk]

It's a bunch of nonsense that liberals have been spewing for decades.

No earthquake is going to make mountains sink below sea level, nor the big valley in between them.

Again....

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

By millions of years of erosion and plate movement, not an overnight earthquake.

 

[longknife]

There was a series of massive quakes from just north of San Diego to about Santa Cruz in the early 1800s. They come on a regular basis and nobody knows yet how to predict them.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

As long as Berkeley, and really the entire San Fran area goes with it, I'm all in.

just outside of SF is the San Joaquin Valley where 40% of the nations crops are grown

better be careful what ya wish for

many Cal haters here feel Maryland and Delaware will pick up the slack....

There's a lot to hate about California. It is a gigantic welfare state that literally goes in the opposite direction than the founding principles of this country.

Kind of stupid, aren't you? California pays more federal taxes to the federal government than any other state, almost double what the next closest state pays, Texas

.Federal tax revenue by state - Wikipedia

Were California an independent nation, it would be the 7th or 8th largest economy in the world.

Yeah yeah, heard it all before.
When I lived there, I believe for a time California had the sixth largest economy in the world.

But then there's this:

34%

Of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California but only …

12%

… of the U.S. population resides there.

 

[bodecea]

It is a myth that any part of California would sink into the sea.

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Hardly sinking into the sea, is it?

 

[dannyboys]

Add “sinking below sea level” to California’s list of natural disaster worries. Portions of the Golden State could be at risk of abruptly dropping into the sea during a severe earthquake like the “Big One” scientists have been predicting for years, according to a study published Monday.
“We think Southern California is locked and loaded"
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Oh well they want to move away from the US anyway, but you can bet if something happened the two faced fk Governor who rips Trump apart would be begging for his financial help. Because that's what hypocrites do.

San Andreas fault could cause coast to instantly sink below sea level

 

[JohnnyApplesack]

As long as Berkeley, and really the entire San Fran area goes with it, I'm all in.

just outside of SF is the San Joaquin Valley where 40% of the nations crops are grown

better be careful what ya wish for

many Cal haters here feel Maryland and Delaware will pick up the slack....

There's a lot to hate about California. It is a gigantic welfare state that literally goes in the opposite direction than the founding principles of this country.

Kind of stupid, aren't you? California pays more federal taxes to the federal government than any other state, almost double what the next closest state pays, Texas

.Federal tax revenue by state - Wikipedia

Were California an independent nation, it would be the 7th or 8th largest economy in the world.

Yeah yeah, heard it all before.
When I lived there, I believe for a time California had the sixth largest economy in the world.

But then there's this:

34%

Of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California but only …

12%

… of the U.S. population resides there.

CA is by far the most advanced and richest state in America, and also grows more produce than any state by country mile

personally I'm glad CA gets a bad rap in the red states, they're less likely to immigrate here

 

[Billy_Bob]

It is a myth that any part of California would sink into the sea.

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Hardly sinking into the sea, is it?

that portion of the St Andrus slipstrike fault fragmented after a 9.2 (or greater quake) happened some hundred thousands of years ago. The mountain ridge then subducted (sank) over a period of several thousand years.

But then what do I know about tectonic structures and formations.. Even New York and that region is still rising from the lack of weight from the ice sheets that left some 17 thousand years ago.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Add “sinking below sea level” to California’s list of natural disaster worries. Portions of the Golden State could be at risk of abruptly dropping into the sea during a severe earthquake like the “Big One” scientists have been predicting for years, according to a study published Monday.
“We think Southern California is locked and loaded"
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Oh well they want to move away from the US anyway, but you can bet if something happened the two faced fk Governor who rips Trump apart would be begging for his financial help. Because that's what hypocrites do.

That would be a cute trick since the San Andreas is a transform fault which means the land is slipping north vs. south...not into the ocean.

I guess you missed that part where it bends at the Mendocino Fracture Zone and heads out to sea. You know bodey if you weren't so stupid you might be able to make an accurate point some day. But there's the rub. You really are stupid!


Here's a map for those who can't seem to do basic research (here's lookin at you bodey!)

These oblique fractures are subducting.. It is what is causing the plate to subside and sink.

 

[martybegan]

Add “sinking below sea level” to California’s list of natural disaster worries. Portions of the Golden State could be at risk of abruptly dropping into the sea during a severe earthquake like the “Big One” scientists have been predicting for years, according to a study published Monday.
“We think Southern California is locked and loaded"
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California Earthquakes: San Andreas Fault Could Cause Coast To Instantly Sink Below Sea Level

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Oh well they want to move away from the US anyway, but you can bet if something happened the two faced fk Governor who rips Trump apart would be begging for his financial help. Because that's what hypocrites do.

California falling into the ocean has been a popular myth my entire life.

This is old nonsense.

I don't know why people feel the need to exaggerate so much. A 9.0+ quake of the 1906 San Francisco quake would be catastrophic enough, with probably thousands or 10's of thousands dead, and trillions in property damage. Yes, it's a risk, but a small one. One could hope a few 7.0's could relieve the plate stress enough to prevent a 9.0+

 

[Cellblock2429]

Add “sinking below sea level” to California’s list of natural disaster worries. Portions of the Golden State could be at risk of abruptly dropping into the sea during a severe earthquake like the “Big One” scientists have been predicting for years, according to a study published Monday.
“We think Southern California is locked and loaded"
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Oh well they want to move away from the US anyway, but you can bet if something happened the two faced fk Governor who rips Trump apart would be begging for his financial help. Because that's what hypocrites do.

/---- and AlBore would screech "Rising sea levels. I told you do."

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It is a myth that any part of California would sink into the sea.

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Hardly sinking into the sea, is it?

that portion of the St Andrus slipstrike fault fragmented after a 9.2 (or greater quake) happened some hundred thousands of years ago. The mountain ridge then subducted (sank) over a period of several thousand years.

.

There Will Be Blood

The prehistoric monster-quakes created a lot of fissures for hydrocarbon biomass to seep into. California has a lot more oil than Chevron is letting us know.

 

[westwall]

Add “sinking below sea level” to California’s list of natural disaster worries. Portions of the Golden State could be at risk of abruptly dropping into the sea during a severe earthquake like the “Big One” scientists have been predicting for years, according to a study published Monday.
“We think Southern California is locked and loaded"
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California Earthquakes: San Andreas Fault Could Cause Coast To Instantly Sink Below Sea Level

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Oh well they want to move away from the US anyway, but you can bet if something happened the two faced fk Governor who rips Trump apart would be begging for his financial help. Because that's what hypocrites do.

That would be a cute trick since the San Andreas is a transform fault which means the land is slipping north vs. south...not into the ocean.

I guess you missed that part where it bends at the Mendocino Fracture Zone and heads out to sea. You know bodey if you weren't so stupid you might be able to make an accurate point some day. But there's the rub. You really are stupid!


Here's a map for those who can't seem to do basic research (here's lookin at you bodey!)

These oblique fractures are subducting.. It is what is causing the plate to subside and sink.

Nay. The East Pacific Rise is a spreading center. The subduction zone is north of the Mendocino Fracture Zone where the JDF Plate is subducting under the NAP. Baja California was ripped off of the NAP plate several million years ago, and in several more million years will be a nice low lying island arc, which, if trends continue, will eventually be slammed into the Aleutian Islands.

 

[PredFan]

Oh please please please please!

Are you on your knees right now?

To pray? If that is what it would take, I would.

 

[westwall]

It's a bunch of nonsense that liberals have been spewing for decades.

No earthquake is going to make mountains sink below sea level, nor the big valley in between them.

Again....

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Baja was created by the East Pacific Rise cutting off that part of the North American Plate and shuttling it northwards. So far it has been transported about 300 miles north from point of origin.

 

[Billy_Bob]

It's a bunch of nonsense that liberals have been spewing for decades.

No earthquake is going to make mountains sink below sea level, nor the big valley in between them.

Again....

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Baja was created by the East Pacific Rise cutting off that part of the North American Plate and shuttling it northwards. So far it has been transported about 300 miles north from point of origin.

I have a geologist friend who would disagree.. But that would be the nature of science..

 

[westwall]

It's a bunch of nonsense that liberals have been spewing for decades.

No earthquake is going to make mountains sink below sea level, nor the big valley in between them.

Again....

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Baja was created by the East Pacific Rise cutting off that part of the North American Plate and shuttling it northwards. So far it has been transported about 300 miles north from point of origin.

I have a geologist friend who would disagree.. But that would be the nature of science..

I AM a geologist, who has papers on the subject, so he can disagree all he wants. The facts are well known and have been for well over 40 years. Refer him to the Pallett Creek literature, and to the EPR literature. The work that was done on Pallett Creek was instrumental in determining the earthquake frequency along the lower San Andreas. Below is an old paper that will put your friend on the right path.


Abstract
Late Holocene marsh deposits composing a terrace about 55 km northeast of Los Angeles, California, contain geologic evidence of many large seismic events produced by slip on the San Andreas fault since the sixth century A.D. I excavated several trenches into the deposits in order to study this evidence. The principal indicators of past events are (1) sandblows and other effects of liquefaction, (2) the termination of secondary faults at distinct levels within the stratigraphic section, and (3) sedimentary deposits and faulted relationships along the main fault. The effects upon the marsh deposits of six of the eight prehistoric events are comparable to those of the great (Ms = 8¼+) 1857 event, which is the youngest of the nine events disturbing the strata and is associated with about 4½ m of right lateral slip nearby. Two large events may be smaller than this. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the events occurred in the nineteenth, eighteenth, fifteenth, thirteenth, late twelfth, tenth, ninth, seventh, and sixth centuries A.D. Recurrence intervals average 160 years but vary from ½ century to about 3 centuries. The dates may indicate a fairly systematic pattern of occurrence of large earthquakes.

Prehistoric large earthquakes produced by slip on the San Andreas Fault at Pallett Creek, California

 

[Old Rocks]

It's a bunch of nonsense that liberals have been spewing for decades.

No earthquake is going to make mountains sink below sea level, nor the big valley in between them.

Again....

How do you think the Baja peninsula was created?

Baja was created by the East Pacific Rise cutting off that part of the North American Plate and shuttling it northwards. So far it has been transported about 300 miles north from point of origin.

I have a geologist friend who would disagree.. But that would be the nature of science..

LOL

http://www.rickbrusca.com/http___www.rickbrusca.com_index.html/Papers_files/Geology of NW Mexico.pdf

Geological Origin of the Baja California Peninsula and Gulf of California Although the Gulf of California (aka, “the Gulf,” the Sea of Cortez) is a young sea, just 7 million years old (mya), the present-day topography of its basin and adjacent land masses (including the Baja California Peninsula) evolved through a series of grand geological events that began many millions of years ago, long before the peninsula itself formed, and that stretch across all of western North America.

Here, learn something.

 

[TooTall]

Add “sinking below sea level” to California’s list of natural disaster worries. Portions of the Golden State could be at risk of abruptly dropping into the sea during a severe earthquake like the “Big One” scientists have been predicting for years, according to a study published Monday.
“We think Southern California is locked and loaded"
San Andreas Fault Could Cause Coast To Instantly Sink Below Sea Level
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California Earthquakes: San Andreas Fault Could Cause Coast To Instantly Sink Below Sea Level

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Oh well they want to move away from the US anyway, but you can bet if something happened the two faced fk Governor who rips Trump apart would be begging for his financial help. Because that's what hypocrites do.

When I lived in California I was told that when the big one hit the rest of the United States would fall into the Atlantic Ocean and leave the Island of California intact.