The occasional blogger now enters cyberspace to make another post. It is time for some real "food for thought," with a different twist.
For a period of time, there has been that Calexit movement, in which a certain segment of people in California want to be separated from the United States. The occasional blogger now poses some questions.
Will the state of California be separated from the United States in a far different manner than the Calexit group is hoping for? Will California physically be separated from the United States via that major rift zone which extends northward from the northern end of the Gulf of California? Will California be physically separated from the United States, in the area of that rift zone which lies to the east of the Sierra Nevada and extends all the way to the Oregon border and beyond?
The major rift zone to the east of the Sierra Nevada is noted in earlier posts in this blog, plus in the page linked below titled Current Expectations for a Cascadia Mega-Quake.
Before the idea of California being ripped loose from the landmass of the United States is discounted, let it be noted that Baja California, in earlier times, was ripped loose from the mainland of Mexico and then shifted hundreds of miles to the northwest. This movement created the Gulf of California. At this point, there is something to seriously consider.
If California were to become physically separated from the United States along the generally northwest-southeast aligned rift zone, that could mean massive, world-class earthquakes. Such an event could leave California utterly devastated, with a lot of destroyed structures and infrastructure.
This form of Calexit would possibly not be the best way to start a new country...with devastated infrastructure and a devastated economy, plus a decimated populace.
For further reading:
Current Expectations for a Cascadia Mega-Quake
https://cascadian.neocities.org/cascadiaquake.htm
