well, perhaps the first cartographers were right about California being an island...
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island
maybe we can break it off quicker??????
and thus the root of the joke about selling beach front property in Yuma Arizona I guess...
I don’t know much about plate tectonics but even as a child I could look at a map of the world and see that the various continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.
The possibility is high, it would run right through the china lake area where we are still seeing quite a bit of daily activity since the big one there. More frequent activity than anywhere else in Ca or Nevada.
https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/index.html
considering that geologists have long suspected that North America is rifting apart along the upper Rio Grande (NM) this would make sense.
North Idaho where I live used to be the western shore of N. America until Washington and Oregon showed up.
Walker Lane? I’ve heard of Walker Hill and Walking Street but.. Oh well.. Live and learn. California will remain split regardless. Vegas will be a few miles closer.
It’s California’s Fault!!
“Faulds says the course of 8 to 10 million years, plate movement will essentially result in the gulf of California extending all the way to northern Nevada, along a zone known as the Walker Lane, which runs along the land where you will currently find U.S. 395.”
So...a good investment would be to buy land on the east side of US 395 and set up a long-term trust?
*Breaking News ping*
=ducking=
The name California comes from a Spanish fictional island whose ruler was a queen named Calafia.
Apparently someday an island will California be.