Actually... There IS a major faultline on the East Coast. It runs right up through Massachusetts, as a matter of fact.
However, unlike the San Andreas, which is like to plates lying on top of each other and sliding OVER each other, the one on the East Coast (the name of which I'm unfamiliar with at the moment) is quite a bit different. :P
Picture two cliff faces moving toward one another. Closer and closer, until they make impact. The ground at the top of these cliffs would be sent UPward, rather than from side to side, laying waste to everything. Nothing along that faultline would be salvageable, and a lot of lives would be lost.
Well... the bad news is, that's the kind of faultline we have here on the East Coast. The good news, from what I'm to understand, is that it's completely dormant. Sure, we'll get very minor tremors here from time to time. But, that's about it. Other than that, it's all quiet here on the Eastern Front. ;)
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Re: Faultlines
Date: 2002-05-13 11:43 pm (UTC)However, unlike the San Andreas, which is like to plates lying on top of each other and sliding OVER each other, the one on the East Coast (the name of which I'm unfamiliar with at the moment) is quite a bit different. :P
Picture two cliff faces moving toward one another. Closer and closer, until they make impact. The ground at the top of these cliffs would be sent UPward, rather than from side to side, laying waste to everything. Nothing along that faultline would be salvageable, and a lot of lives would be lost.
Well... the bad news is, that's the kind of faultline we have here on the East Coast. The good news, from what I'm to understand, is that it's completely dormant. Sure, we'll get very minor tremors here from time to time. But, that's about it. Other than that, it's all quiet here on the Eastern Front. ;)
Seeya!
Adam "Pegasus316" Fullerton