Is it true that California will fall into the ocean??

Question

Is it true and why?

Answer 1

No...the San Andreas fault is a strike-slip fault - it has little up and down motion and mostly sideways (horizontal) movement. The part of California west of the San Andreas will slowly slide northward toward Alaska. Eventually (20 million years from now or so), it will collide with the Aleutian Trench.

Answer 2

Half of California will fall into the ocean from North to South. This is inevitable.

Answer 3

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Is it true that California will fall into the ocean??
Is it true and why?

Answer 4

Calif will not fall into the ocean. Plate tectonics will, over a period of millions of years, cause the area west of the San Andreas fault line to move northward towards Alaska.

Answer 5

That is not the way it works. In the San Andreas Fault, two plates are sliding by each other in oppositte directions. The western plate cannot fall into the Pacific ocean.

Answer 6

No it is not true
For it to "fall" into the ocean it would have to be on a subduction plate boundary.
Its not.
It is on what is none as a strike slip boundary or a Transform boundary

Part of CA will continue to moved north for a very long time

Hope that helps

Answer 7

All of America, from Canada to Argentina, has been moving west at about one foot each year. America use to be attached to Europe and Africa. It broke off and started moving west.
I was raised in Maryland, with a great beach near our house. It kept getting smaller and smaller. A pool had to be built. Then a few decades later I was there and all the hill up to the road was gone and a wall had been built in, so the road and the houses across the street would not fall in. About another 15 years has gone by since I saw it.
Many are greatly concerned today; because Alaska is going to be hitting Russia.We are getting closer and closer.
As the East coast gets eaten away, the west Coast is probably getting more added to it, picking it up as it is pushed west.
I would think if a earthquake was to cause Calf. to fall it would possible get rebuilt up with all the moving.
Be more concerned with our hitting Asia.

Answer 8

Only if we're lucky. I've got some desert land on the Nevada border that would look really good as shoreline property.

Answer 9

yes if the global warming continue to increase at the actual rate it is most probable that it will go under water but the most unlikely thing to happen is that you survive long enough to see it... it will take centuries or even milleniums to go there and i guess by that time the world's atmosphere will not be able to sustain human life... but then the first country to "drown" will be netherland

Answer 10

no, it won't fall into the ocean,but may be subducted under the north American tectonic plate.