From:	Paul.Grosse@***********.com (Paul Grosse)
Subject:	Shadowrun and Suspension of Disbelief
Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2005 06:53:12 -0500

> The sinking of large parts of California is another example.
> There's no fault where the game designers put the new
> coastline, and the one that's nearest wouldn't lead to
> massive terrestrial subduction. So what the hell happened?
> "Magic?" Okay, I *might* buy that magic can wreak massive
> changes far in excess of what powerful forces like plate
> tectonics can't, but at least throw me a bone. Don't just
> say "there was an earthquake, and, um, stuff fell into the
> ocean" because that doesn't cut it.

Well there's also the fact that scientists can't really know exactly
where a fault line is until it does move, thereby creating an
earthquake. And fault lines can be in the middle of a plate, or rather
not a fault line, umm I can't remember what they call a weak spot in the
plate right now. But the strongest earthquake ever recorded in North
America was in Southern Indiana. So in theory there could be a massive
fault line that has been building pressure for the last couple of
thousand years or so and the little ones around it have just been
relieving the pressure a bit at a time, but the over all pressure keeps
going up.

Paul "Yes that Paul" Grosse
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