i need accurate answers.... is California sinking??? i need a answer tonight...thursday jan 17th.... anyone?
2007-01-17 14:01:15 · 11 answers · asked by princesscarmona 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
thx everyone
2007-01-17 14:44:51 · update #1
Geologists will tell you that the tectonic plates are constantly moving, both up and down and sliding. So in a way, many places in the world are both sinking and rising. California is a place where several tectonic plates meet. However, California is of the sliding type of fault line (place where tectonic plates meet is called a fault line). If you are referring to the old prediction that the San Francisco area and coastline will go into the big drink someday...time will tell. It would take a big quake to make it happen...and if the SF peninsula should happen to break off and fall in, imagine the huge splash that would occur. It could flood the entire central valley and every other low lying lands in California. People in the Sierra Nevadas might be living on the future coastline. Chances are that the lovely Pacific Islands would sink before California is hit by that kind of catastrophe.
2007-01-17 14:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by Jalapinomex 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, California's not sinking. Parts of it are moving north along the San Andreas Fault boundary, but that's a slip-fault (the sides move laterally against each other), not a subduction fault (where one side is going under the other side). No sinking :)
In a few hundred thousand years, Los Angeles will be in Northern California, and Tijuana (Mexico) will be where Malibu is now. That's plate tectonics for ya!
Ocean levels are also rising worldwide due to global warming, but that will affect all coastlines around the world, not just California...
2007-01-17 14:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it does sink it won't take place for yet another hundreds years and it will slowly take place it won't purely bypass underwater in like 10 seconds it can be a sluggish progression all and sundry could get out of California in the previous it happens.
2016-10-31 10:01:28 · answer #3 · answered by herrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Today is Wednesday the 17th. Not Thursday! I wish California would sink! Too may whacko, leftie liberals out there!
2007-01-17 14:12:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
well,my answer would be yes. . From what i gather from the news and discovery channel. (not to mention Nostradamus predictions) (not sure if i spelled his name right) Its said that San Diego or L.A. is sinking because of how the earth is changing, especially with all the global warming happening, the water from all the melting ice has to go somewhere and we are on the coastline.
2007-01-17 14:08:50 · answer #5 · answered by uz2bafrk 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Southern CA will eventually be alongside NorCA. It's a slip/slide fault, meaning two tectonic plate slide along one another.
2007-01-17 14:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by Beachman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check the internet all i know is that the pacific is shrinking and the atlantic is rising. It might sink.
2007-01-17 14:05:47 · answer #7 · answered by bulldragon8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't sinking... it's being torn apart.
2007-01-17 14:03:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
study plate tectonics...
2007-01-17 14:04:34 · answer #9 · answered by tellme 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope not. because if it is, I am DOOMED. :(
2007-01-17 14:03:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋