Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Is it true you get earthquakes in California?
Is California a hot bed for earthquakes? I was looking online and there has been a lot of minor earthquakes recorded (when I posted this it said there were small earthquakes as recent as today). I live in England and I have never experienced an earthquake. We had a small one some years ago but I slept through it and then woke up just afterwards (I was really annoyed by that actually).
6 Answers
- Anonymous4 years ago
yes
- The DonaldLv 64 years ago
Yes, it is part of the Ring of Fire that circles around the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco is built on the debris of the bad one they had back 1906 (had lesser one in 1989) which in and of itself was put on top of thixotropic muds so expect San Francisco to someday just slide into the Pacific.
- How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Parts of California have frequent earthquakes; other parts don't. I live in San Diego. We rarely feel an earthquake and almost never have a destructive one.
- 4 years ago
It is. California lies on three minor faults and one major one. The San Andrea's Fault will create earthquakes as large as magnitude 8.0 as seen in 1906 when a 7.8 rocked San Andreas and the regions around it.
