What will do you....when California seperates?

[Hyperblaze]

So when California becames an island...

how will you react?

 

[BooGiMaN]

will there be less traffic....if not meh...

 

[everman]

California is moving East, it will never become an island.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Ummm, because of where the fault line is. Not much will be different. Just part of SF needs a new bridge.

 

[Montano]

Probably buy a boat for my new ocean front property

 

[astralusion]

probably be done with school here so go back to cali, chill back home with beaches an hour away in two directions...nc is sucking my soul

 

[Mrvile]

What's California?

 

[meltdown75]

blaze.

 

[MoPHo]

watch as it gets turned into the california from Escape From L.A.

 

[sixone]

Depends - would that move Kansas one time zone to the left, or to the right?

 

[thomsbrain]

do a little dance, make a little love...

<--- lives in CA.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: everman
California is moving East, it will never become an island.

yeah...about that...

try northWEST.

 

[imported_goku]

Why do people have the impression california will break off it's not even fvcking protruding out... I can see florida or maine breaking off but not california..

 

[RedPickle]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
blaze.

hehe

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Originally posted by: goku
Why do people have the impression california will break off it's not even fvcking protruding out... I can see florida or maine breaking off but not california..

Yea however nice it might be. It's really hard to comprehend the amount of power it would take to seperate the entire state of california from the US.

 

[Proletariat]

I'd move there and set up my own government :Q

 

[hevnsnt]

party like it's 1999

 

[anxi80]

id be upset because the joke about selling beach front property in arizona to gullible people wouldnt be as funny.

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: everman
California is moving East, it will never become an island.

say what?

 

[stan394]

Originally posted by: xSkyDrAx

Originally posted by: goku
Why do people have the impression california will break off it's not even fvcking protruding out... I can see florida or maine breaking off but not california..

Yea however nice it might be. It's really hard to comprehend the amount of power it would take to seperate the entire state of california from the US.

not too hard. when it becomes an independent state of mexico

 

[klah]

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/faq/california.html

From time to time, people have "predicted" that California will break off from the United States and fall into the ocean due to earthquake activity. These visions - while spectacular in their imagery - have no basis in fact.

The San Andreas Fault System, which traverses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. Tectonic forces in this part of the world are driving the Pacific Plate in a north-northwesterly direction with respect to the North American plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The motion between the plates is almost all in the horizontal plane. This causes strike-slip earthquakes on a number of faults in the San Andreas system. The sense of motion on these faults is such that objects on the opposite side of the fault will appear to move to the right during an earthquake, which is known as right-lateral faulting. (In left-lateral faulting, objects on the opposite side will move to the left with respect to the observer.)

Since most of the motion between the Pacific and North American plates is horizontal, California is not going to fall into the ocean. It is true, however, that Los Angeles is gradually creeping northward and someday will be a suburb of San Francisco!

 

[stan394]

Originally posted by: klah
http://seismo.berkeley.edu/faq/california.html

From time to time, people have "predicted" that California will break off from the United States and fall into the ocean due to earthquake activity. These visions - while spectacular in their imagery - have no basis in fact.

The San Andreas Fault System, which traverses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. Tectonic forces in this part of the world are driving the Pacific Plate in a north-northwesterly direction with respect to the North American plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The motion between the plates is almost all in the horizontal plane. This causes strike-slip earthquakes on a number of faults in the San Andreas system. The sense of motion on these faults is such that objects on the opposite side of the fault will appear to move to the right during an earthquake, which is known as right-lateral faulting. (In left-lateral faulting, objects on the opposite side will move to the left with respect to the observer.)

Since most of the motion between the Pacific and North American plates is horizontal, California is not going to fall into the ocean. It is true, however, that Los Angeles is gradually creeping northward and someday will be a suburb of San Francisco!

not nice.. not nice...

 

[mercanucaribe]

Why do people think that would happen? The San Andreas fault only divides off a small piece of California, and it's sliding sideways. If that plate were to move away from the North America plate, there would be HUGE volcanoes that would kill us all.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
So when California becames an island...

how will you react?

In 20 billion years? I'll most likely be dead and I won't care.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Rejoice?