well for most of my life i thought that california would break apart from the western U.S. coast at the hands of earthquakes and the california fault line. until recently when i saw a history channel show on earthquakes, a man (a scientist) said that california breaking apart from the western U.S. coast is a myth and will NEVER happin. he said that the fault line will make california (or a part of it) will either go up or down. either this (his theory) was made to make shure no one in california gets scared and panics OR he is 100% correct.

what do you think???

If it were breaking off, it would be incredibly slow. Like several inches a year kind of slow. It would take many millions of years, thousands at best if it could do 10 feet a year, which is impossible, tectonic plates don't move that fast. So far, no movement has really been found. You have nothing to worry about. I have a science teacher who says that, but she also says we are ruining our environment and other such liberal propaganda. The media companies choose stories to scare people, otherwise almost nobody would watch.

my understanding is that Calif. (apart from rising/sinking) is sliding to the north once west of the San Andreas fault. It could become an island in, ooh, 'bout eleventy-million years or so.

Originally posted by DanD9
... but she also says we are ruining our environment and other such liberal propaganda.

Why don't you learn something abuot the planetary ecology instead of just dismissing it as "Liberal Propaganda". If it was up to the "conservatives" the world would be a cesspit of waste and toxic sludge.

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[edit on 16-9-2004 by Chuck Stevenson]

Even if it were moving up and down, wouldnt eventually be enough to make clifornia break off and become its one islan/continent. gentlemen, we may look back on all of this and laugh, or we may be spinning in our graves. one of them has to happen, rite? rite?

I spent almost 4 years in Southern Cal. San Diego, and Long Beach. I was there for the quake that flattened the bridge from oakland to San Fransisco. I was in A school at the time on Treasure Island. I spent a week pulling cars off the bridge. I would say honestly, If the place is going to have a quake big enough to break up California, the chances are, the quake would be so devastating that only a few, if any would survive.