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For the first time, scientists have produced a computer image showing huge sections of California rising and sinking around the San Andreas fault.
The vertical movement is the result of seismic strain that will be ultimately released in a large earthquake.
The San Andreas fault is Californias longest earthquake fault, and one of the states most dangerous. Scientists have long expected that parts of California are rising and other parts sinking around the fault in a way that is ongoing, very subtle and extremely slow.
Such vertical movement makes a lot of sense. California sits on the border of two gigantic tectonic plates the Pacific and North American that are constantly grinding past each other.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-andreas-fault-20160622-snap-story.html

Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)If so, BRILLANT! Did we learn nothing from Japan?