After the Earthquake

Some 50 miles from where I live the land sharply drops off 1,500 feet to the Rio Grande valley below. It’s an unexpected and breathtaking view when one crests the incline and the entire landscape opens up, filling the vision.
Since the tectonic collision that forced up the mountains suggests a weakness in the Earth’s crust at that point, it is possible that a massive earthquake in the West of the country would create a fracture, effectively splitting the continent in two and recreating, once again, the vast central ocean.

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