Originally posted by Karnak
What nincomepoop came up with the idiotic idea that California was going to slide into the Pacific?
That is sheerly idiotic.
it's from Lex Luthor in the 1st superman movie. seems pretty unlikley, as the west coast has been rising for the last ~100 million years (east coast is shrinking. the apaliacian mountains - if you can call them that - used to be big like the HIMALAYAS ~2billion years ago)
Originally posted by Karnak
In the next few million years a small part of the CA coast (including about half of San Francisco and the extreme western part of Marin county) with head up to the artic areas near Alaska, but the rest of CA isn't going anywhere.
Point the second. I'll take a major earthquake once every century over constant tornadoes and hurricanes any day. The east coast only gets flattened a few times a decade by hurricanes, and you guys get horrified by the thought of a few 4.0 tremblors that you can scarcely feel? Yeesh.
major quakes in california seem to be more than just once every 100 years - there has been two in the last 20 years
