Do you believe California will break apart from the U.S. continent and when?

Question

Self explanatory

Answer 1

yes and not soon enough

Answer 2

There is a popular misconception, played up in Curt Gentry's pop apocalypse, Last Days of the Late, Great State of California (1968), that, eventually, a portion of California will break away from the continental U.S. at the fault, or drop below sea level. This is not true; it would be more correct to say the land will move northwest, because the fault is a transform fault (the two land masses are sliding by each other, not moving apart).

Answer 3

Yes it will. The San Andreas Fault is the boundary between two tectonic plates. It won't fall into the ocean, though. It'll slide north and eventually collide with Alaska. When? Remember geology doesn't keep time the same way we do. Millions, maybe billions of years from now.

But like my old geology professor used to say, "What's a million years between friends?" ;)

Answer 4

Yes I do believe this will happen as to when I am not totally sure. Scientists believe that California is slowly pulling away from the US and will eventually fall into the ocean. The San Andreas fault is helping all of this happen.

Answer 5

The whole state of california isnt going to break off, but the part of the state that is on the San Andreas fault will slide north, and eventually end up by alaska......in millions of years of course. The state isn't going to break off into the ocean.

Answer 6

Yes, I do. It is right on the San Andreas fault. I don't think it will be in our life time, although I've heard about this since grade school. Just like all the continents fit together because they were attached at some point.

Answer 7

It is only a matter of time before the eastern edge of the ring of fire (California), slips beneath the mass of the North American continent during its western movement.

Answer 8

part of california is being separated due to the san andreas fault line. the part of california that is on the pacific plate is slowly sliding north towards alaska. in about 10 million years from now, los angeles and san diego will be near san francisco.

Answer 9

I don't know, there was just a big article in the paper that says the San Andreas fault in Southern California has alot of pressure building up behind it and it could blow any day?? You just never know.....

Answer 10

Do not know when, but yes one day eventually everything *east* of the San Adreas fault will break off and fall into the *Atlantic* Ocean.

:P

Answer 11

Most of it will break off in the next few eons. It will drift north and ultimately be swallowed up by Alaska, more or less.