im starting to buy umbrellas and coolers for my beach front property.

 

Golden.. get the hell out of there before that area becomes an island... by the way, you probably study about that too... how much will it take for a chunck of Cali to "break off" (Everytime i hear about an earthquake in Cali i think about the redhotchilipepers "californication" music video )

 

The San Andreas fault (which runs from the V of baja Cali to the SF Bay) is a subducted strike slip fault so so California is not spreading apart but rather sliding up. We joke about LA becoming a island but that really isn't likely. LA is just making a move north. And faster then you would think!

Also the RHCP song Californication is about is about ****.

Anything else you would like to know?

 

I think of the Tool song, but whatever.

Anyway, I thought there was a tsunami from the 7.0? It was only 6cm tall but it was a tsunami.

I'm so glad I bought all that property outside of Yuma!

 

It techincally won't break off. It's simply sliding up :p Cali is mostly on the North American Plate but a sliver of it is on the The Pacific Plate and as Golden stated the plates are sliding past eachother by about 5cm a year. It's only from about the Salton Sea to Point Reyes but it actually skips around San Fransisco.

 

Damn, I was busy on the phone and you responded before me Johnny. hahaha

 

yeer one of them there smart sumbitches ain'tcha

 

theres a valcano i see every morning infront of my barracks over here in sicily. its kinda cool

 

 

Can you geologist answer me this? When I drive from here (Tucson) to San Diego (I-8), there's a vast desert region that is filled with these big black rocks. They're scattered and they go on for miles. Are these due to a big volcanic eruption a long time ago?