Or is it just a myth?
2007-06-16 05:05:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The Pacific Plate west of the San Adreas fault is going north at about the rate your fingernails grow. East of the San Andreas is stationary. Strain is increasing. The last great rupture was in 1906. Nothing is going to fall into the Pacific Ocean.
As the fault rupture propagates it chirps (Mach-Stem wave) - dispersive transmission vs. frequency piles up energy like a tsunami hitting shallows. You do not want to be at the far end of the rupture. A hammer cannot push a nail into wood, but it slams it in no problem.
2007-06-16 05:13:58 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It won't put it under the ocean. That's an exagerration.
2007-06-16 05:56:20 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no way of telling how soon, but i am not sure if it will go under, or become an island, personally.
2007-06-16 07:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by chelley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this sounds like the movie 10.5
But this might not be true
2007-06-16 06:07:44 · answer #4 · answered by Spartan-112 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋