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Re:Ask HN: Could California sink into the Ocean in the next ... by saltcured on Saturday August 11, 2018 @05:11PM (#17741561)
Nobody likes to talk about it, but the truth is that if we have The Big One, the whole rest of the US may shear off and fall into the Atlantic.
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Re:Ask HN: Could California sink into the Ocean in the next ... by dizzystar on Sunday August 12, 2018 @03:44AM (#17743404)
Haha.

The San Andreas Fault is a sliding fault (don't know the technical term), which means LA and SF will be neighbors at some point in the far future.

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Re:Ask HN: Could California sink into the Ocean in the next ... by Fjolsvith on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:10PM (#17753982)
If that happened, I would die happy knowing the tsunami from it would wash California clean.
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Re:Ask HN: Could California sink into the Ocean in the next ... by Scarblac on Saturday August 11, 2018 @05:27PM (#17741639)
But would California notice?
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