what are two plates that california lies on?
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try the website below
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SAN FRANCISCO! (It is in the northern part of California.  El Paso & Laredo are in southern Texas.)
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What Is It?\nScientists have learned that the Earth's crust is fractured into a series of "plates" that have been moving very slowly over the Earth's surface for millions of years. Two of these moving plates meet in western California; the boundary between them is the San Andreas fault. The Pacific Plate (on the west) moves northwestward relative to the North American Plate (on the east), causing earthquakes along the fault. The San Andreas is the "master" fault of an intricate fault network that cuts through rocks of the California coastal region. The entire San Andreas fault system is more than 800 miles long and extends to depths of at least 10 miles within the Earth. In detail, the fault is a complex zone of crushed and broken rock from a few hundred feet to a mile wide. Many smaller faults branch from and join the San Andreas fault zone. Almost any road cut in the zone shows a myriad of small fractures, fault gouge (pulverized rock), and a few solid pieces of rock.
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The first was in California.
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In Ca, you have to have both a back and front plate.  Yes, they can fine you for it.
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it is a strike-slip fault residing on the border of the pacific and north american tectonic plates
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California is the fifth largest economy in the world.\nThat makes it a very important place not only in the U.S. but the world. If you divide the state into two parts it would loose that special stature, that's why it will never happen.
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Los Angeles and San Francisco would be the big ones but there are a lot of smaller ones in the same danger area. Basically anything that is on or near the San Andreas Fault. Check the map at the link--- actually explore the rest of the site, too--- good info there!
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I don't think so. Because California is not in the list.\nAlthough is it undeniable that California is constantly attack by heavy wind but the activity of volcanoes and earthquakes will not induce typoon to California.
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Common Myths about Earthquakes\n\nQ: Will California eventually fall off into the ocean?\n\nA: No. The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year (the rate your fingernails grow). The strike-slip earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault are a result of this plate motion. The plates are moving horizontally past one another, so California is not going to fall into the ocean. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day be adjacent to one another!
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California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas
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There is no right answer for this question. Just because the plates are moving and right now most of the land mass is in the northern hemisphere. That is just where the bulk of it is right now, and someday it will change.
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are we talking shipping ports ? If so, I believe the two main ports in California are the following :\n\n1.) Port of Long Beach, CA\n2.) Port of San Francisco, CA
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look up plate tectonics
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Start here:\n\nhttp://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/California
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Two.  Parts of the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran Desert are in California.
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"California", by Phantom Planet