Bomb Cyclone Out West — will SF finally fall off?
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Anonymous
| When I was a kid, there was always talk about how California would eventually “fall off”. I’m sure some of it was tongue in cheek but plenty was said with all seriousness. I don’t really think SF will fall off from this bomb cyclone and subsequent flooding, but it does make me wonder when do scientists think that day will come? |
Anonymous
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https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/eastern-california-intense-seismic-and-geothermal-activity-594/
San Francisco and all the west cost move north. In about 30 million years San Francisco will be in Alaska and LA will be where San Francisco is. Nothing falls in the ocean. There have been lakes that formed in land. Last one was about 2,000 years ago. The lake existed in several stages over the last 2,000 years, periodically drying and refilling and eventually disappearing sometime after 1580. Between 1905 and 1907, due to an engineering accident, the Salton Sea formed in parts of the lower basin of Lake Cahuilla. Were it not for human intervention, the sea might have grown to the size of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla. Today the former lake bed forms the fertile regions of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys. |
Anonymous
I think “falling off” was just an expression. Thanks for sharing. |
Anonymous
| There are houses built right on the edge of cliffs that could fall in the ocean because of erosion. However, that's the closest you'd come in real life to CA "falling off." it's just a jokey expression. |
Anonymous
| What? Bomb cyclone? 😂 |
Anonymous
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Yes, bomb cyclone:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/weather/weather-bomb-cyclone-pacific-northwest-california-rain-snow/index.html "A “bomb cyclone” with hurricane-like strength and a chart-topping “atmospheric river” will coincide Saturday night into Sunday to unleash flooding rains, wet snow, strong winds and coastal surf across the western US. "This will be the third and strongest in a series of storms to strike the West Coast this week. "A bomb cyclone is a system that drops at least 24 mb in pressure 24 hours or less – and typically the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm. Atmospheric rivers are narrow bands of concentrated moisture that cruise more than 2 miles above the ocean and release rain or snow when they hit land – and this one rates level 5 of 5." |
Anonymous
| Bomb is just an expression. |
Anonymous
| California is still in a severe drought in spite of all the rain. It would have to rain like this every week for DECADES to erase the drought. It’s too late. |
Anonymous
The news on California drought is better than you suggest: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-reservoirs-rise-after-weeks-of-storms-see-how-much/ |
Anonymous
| Yes they are overdue for a giant earthquake that could be devastating in a "falling off" kind of way |
Anonymous
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Good luck to them with that bomb cyclone. |
Anonymous
| CA resident here. Actually most of our state has moved out of the "severe drought" category and into the "moderate drought" or "abnormally dry" status. This is a huge improvement. |
Anonymous
The southern portion of the San Andreas is overdue . . . around LA. Is that what you mean? Also, the Juan de Fuca plate that runs 80 miles off the coast from northern CA all the way up to Vancouver is also overdue for a big one, and it will cause a catastrophic tsunami. Honestly, I could not live on the west coast knowing that these things are eventualities. |
Anonymous
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More info on the northern quake zone:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one |