Within the next month or so? I figure it will either be in California, probably Northern CA, or Alaska. How will this affect the election?
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Within the next month or so? I figure it will either be in California, probably Northern CA, or Alaska. How will this affect the election?
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Large earthquakes have happened there before, and will happen again. All life on the planet could be extinguished, and the tectonic plates will still move.
The ring of fire, which is the circle of volcanoes and earthquake faults that ring the Pacific, will always be unstable. Volcanoes and Earthquakes will happen.
The San Andreas Fault runs right through the back of some of the most populated areas of California. This is a live quake fault line. One day, of course it will quake again.
Whether it happens before the election, is a bit more difficult to predict. As another answerer has said, it takes time to build up the pressure for an earthquake to happen.
It’s PROBABLE, but not possible.
Earthquakes are merely the stress reduction between the tectonic plates. There has not been enough time lapsed from the last major quake to expect another. The plates would not have had time to gain the kinetic strength to produce such a quake. Small, perhaps, as the plates will always adjust as needed during the growth phase, but a large one is definitely not in the cards.
thats not really earth-shattering to me, being born here in cali. grew up here and am still here. earthquakes are always a possibility here. so yes, i believe you. as for the election and how an earthquake might affect it, I dont really see how it would unless california finally really does fall off into the ocean. then i guess it might affect all state level politics if a large portion of the state dropped into the ocean!