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Originally Posted by tarcone
Shoot, I could be closer to the Pacific Ocean when the San Andreas fault lets loose.
That would certainly put a damper on the PAC 12.
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I know this is not a serious response, but my inner geology nerd can't resist - the San Andreas is a transform fault, so what happens when it "lets loose" is the land west of the fault (a thin sliver of California and all of Baja California) moves north relative to the rest of North America. And north of the San Andreas, the Juan De Fuca plate subducts under the North American plate (hence the volcanic Cascade Mountain range from northern California up through southern British Columbia), which results in more material added to the western edge of the continent.
So no, you're actually getting farther away from the Pacific Ocean.