So, when does does the West coast go back under the Pacific?

[Shagly]

Bring on the Earthquakes.

 

[Hypoxia]

Geology does not work that way. The Pacific and North American plates are sliding past each other in the Californias. More northly, the Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the North American plate from Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Island, the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Global warming may melt icecaps sufficiently to submerge California's coastal basins and Central Valley but the Coast Ranges ain't going down. You've got to stop reading trash literature. Curt Gentry's THE LAST DAYS OF THE LATE GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA is great history but lousy geology. Cheers.

PS: What WILL happen next, like probably within 50 years, is a huge springback of the Cascadia fault I mentioned. It will swamp the coastal Northwest and drown Japan under a massive tsunami. It's happened before; it's overdue.

 

[Shagly]

Geology does not work that way. The Pacific and North American plates are sliding past each other in the Californias. More northly, the Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the North American plate from Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Island, the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Global warming may melt icecaps sufficiently to submerge California's coastal basins and Central Valley but the Coast Ranges ain't going down. You've got to stop reading trash literature. Curt Gentry's THE LAST DAYS OF THE LATE GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA is great history but lousy geology. Cheers.

PS: What WILL happen next, like probably within 50 years, is a huge springback of the Cascadia fault I mentioned. It will swamp the coastal Northwest and drown Japan under a massive tsunami. It's happened before; it's overdue.

The plates are always slowly moving since the center of the Earth is liquid magma, when a earthquake finally reaches the tension release point who knows what could happen, a quake under a ocean seems to do more damage then one on land.

The Ring of Fire seems to always be giving off tsunamis, like the nuclear energy plant that gave Japan trouble,.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

According to Al Gore, about five years ago.