For a while now I've heard about california being split by 2 plates in the earth. Now, (before global warming) I always heard that California would sink under or the soil would somehow erode by an earthquake but now they are saying due to global warming the sea level is going to rise and california will be wiped that way. So, yeah I'm scared because I'm supposed to move to L.A. in about a year.
2007-03-18 12:32:05 · 11 answers · asked by B R I T T A 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Where did you hear all this drivel?
Yes, CA is split by the San Andreas fault. But the two plates are slipping past one another, with the western side moving north, and the eastern side moving south. When "The Big One" occurs, we'll see movement on that fault, maybe even a few dozen feet in some places. The destruction could be huge. But land isn't going to disappear. The idea of California sinking into the ocean because of an earthquake is just science fiction, like a giant volcano erupting under New York
As far as global warming raising the sea level, California, like all other coastal states and countries, will lose some land to the ocean. However, California will fare much better than all of the states in the southeast. HUGE portions of Florida, in particular, will be underwater if our worst fears of global warming are realized. Still, this would take hundreds of years.
2007-03-18 12:37:21 · answer #1 · answered by Jim S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, California's no longer sinking. parts of it are transferring north alongside the San Andreas Fault boundary, yet it truly is a slip-fault (the perimeters flow laterally adverse to at least one yet another), no longer a subduction fault (the position one area is going below the different area). No sinking :) In some hundred thousand years, l. a. will be in Northern California, and Tijuana (Mexico) often is the position Malibu is now. it truly is plate tectonics for ya! Ocean tiers are also transforming into international by way of international warming, yet which will impact all coastlines international huge, no longer in simple terms California...
2016-11-26 21:18:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we are not going to sink. If anything we will get higher mountains, but that will take a million years or so. Since we don't truly know what the effect of global warming will be, the sea level may rise but in is not going to happen in the next few years. Maybe 50 yrs from now if it happens. Not To Worry
2007-03-18 12:39:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
St. andre's fault is a disaster waiting to happen. Though it will not cause the ground beneath you to vanish. The ground beneath will shift to a new postion that will be habitable. As for global warning causing the sea level to rise, this is a highly debated theory. Even it is even correct, it is not going to happen in your life time. It will be a gradual increase over a very long time, that will easily take longer then any of our life times.
2007-03-18 13:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The San Andreas fault is a transform fault. There is no converging or diverging. Only sliding alongside. So someday, LA will actually be up where San Francisco is, but no, it won't fall into the ocean never to be seen again.
No matter what, both of the processes you are talking about will take much longer to occur than you need to worry about as far as living in LA goes.
2007-03-18 12:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Banana Slug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sure hope not.........but if the icecaps keeps melting it could raise the ocean levels up to 20 feet which would put most of the west and east coast under water, and about the earthquakes, it is true that if a huge earthquake with allot of huge after shocks, certain area of the coast will disperse into the ocean. Lets pray these things will never come to be.
2007-03-18 12:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by sidekick 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Global Warming mabye but not by earthquakes.
2007-03-18 12:37:15 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Florida is going to sink and California is going to slide into the ocean. This I heard many years ago. Panic everyone!
2007-03-18 12:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Im im LA /OC. Things look ok at the moment..
If you arrive here and we are gone-Go up to oregon-It's nice there but it rains a lot.
Lol- you have nothing to work about ;-) Maybe in a billion years well be an island!
2007-03-18 13:44:27 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is very possible, and probably will happen, but it might take time for all of CA to be put under water... so if you start hearing that the sea level is rising, and a lot of flooding, then decide to move again or something... cuz it might not happen for a few years yet.
2007-03-18 12:41:51 · answer #10 · answered by angeleyes_0613 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋