Could California slide off into the ocean?

I don't like to be alarming, but I have a true story for you;

Sometimes, I think we give our dreams too little credit.

What if our dreams are simply picking up on the collective
conscience, and putting together a potential future scenario
for us?

Visions, some call them deja vu's, I believe, happen all the time.

I had a vision one time.

I was standing on the edge of a river bank, and I saw an indentation in about
two feet from the edge. As I look at this, the bank broke off at that indentation, and sluffed off into the river.

It made me instantly think of California, sluffing off in the ocean!

Years later, I was looking on Google, and I noticed how the valley
along the California State line (death valley) is depressed. It immediately
made me think about that river bank, many years back.



Now, look at the shelf where Los Angeles sits.


www.physics.unlv.edu...

Looks ripe for a landslide to me.

Think of all the weight of the concrete, the constant erosion,
the fault line, the recent earthquakes, mine and others dreams, visions,
and the constant erosion of the sea.

Now, if, God forbid, this did ever happen, think about the tidal wave.



[edit on 8-5-2008 by cutbothways]

[edit on 8-5-2008 by cutbothways]

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That's very possible. I appreciate the research & other work you've done. You're a great friend & patriot.

No, it really can't do that.

There is no actual mechanism for it to do that. It's not even remotely possible even for it to budge like that. California, while it has the San Andreas fault line, is not able to do that. For one thing the fault line isn't such a constant line as you are thinking of, and for another California itself is part of the North American Plate. The other side might be part of the Pacific plate, but that doesn't make any difference, since the Pacific plate is getting smaller and as such forcing California into the USA, if you can call it that.

Do you remember the fuss about the side of that island in the Canaries falling into the sea? If I remember correctly that was disproved, and with that there was a far smaller scale and a proposed mechanism. California on the other hand, is firmly attached to America, and also the Pacific plate. Unless the San Andreas fault line was to travel horizontally such that California was detached physically from the rest of the plates, what you propose is impossible. Even if it were like that, you would need enormous energy to even budge it. The force of friction is equal to the coefficient of friction x the reaction force (that is, the weight of California in this case), which would need enormous force to even budge in what you propose. This is ignoring the assumption that you would be dealing with a flat body on a flat surface, which does not apply in the slightest.


Negligible in comparison to the natural weight. Buildings are hollow and have in comparison to the rock little mass.



Have nothing to do with fault lines unless we're talking about a hypothetical Phreatic eruption causing it due to water. In fact, erosion dumps mass into the sea, so what would that even do?


The earthquakes are from transverse movement, not subduction or any other process.

To sum up, the chance of California sliding into the ocean is basically zero.

Somethings brewing. I've been like a cat on a hot tin roof all day. The recent spate of eq's from alaska, oregon, down to LA recently have been numerous. Two 3.1's in mississipi today. New madrid is groaning too. Something is going to give bigtime. Hope it's just nerves and an overactive imagination.

Even the Discovery channel says 'It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when' when they're talking about 'the big quake'.

Although I don't quite know the magnitude of how big 'the big quake' is estimated to potentially be.

To answer your question, maybe, maybe not.

I think anything is possible.

If we all prayed long and hard enough, it just may fall off into the ocean.
I grew up in Los Angeles, and since I moved from there, I pray everyday, that it will break off and sink into the ocean. A few more cars on the road, a little more weight, more negativity, more people....come on folks, we can make it happen!

The 405 going straight into the ocean would be sooooo cool!

All the traffic sinking into the sea.....wonderful!

Let us pray together....

(lol)
Just kiddin (I don't want anyone to die unnecessarily), but if it happens.....

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Wow. That's really kind of chilling conx. Dry ice chilling. Can't imagine your mindset on that. Probably don't want to know. Chilling. I want to believe that's poor sarcasm. 'Shudders'.

Wasn't there a movie about this?

This is not a one line post.

[edit on 11/5/2008 by C0bzz]

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Once again, Ignorance is Denied!

I think the idea (much like saying, "The sky is falling.") started out years ago as wishful thinking.

Earthquakes, yes, but slip sliding away into the Pacific, no.