Of course given that this is its certain fate (via an earthquake) at some point, perhaps poor taste? Anyways...
Yep, buy up all the soon to be beachfront property in eastern CA asap.
HC
This is not quite so fanciful as it sounds. A big enough San Andreas fault quake on its southern end, just might cause a crack in the 30 foot high or so mud berm created by the Colorado River when the river moved (also due to a quake back when) at its mouth that sealed off the Gulf of California down at its present location just south of Mexicali. Thus there is this vast swath of below sea level territory running north of the berm up though the southern end of the Coachella Valley, the lowest portion of which (133 feet below sea level at its surface) is where the Salton Sea is located, formerly dry land which filled up due to an irrigation glitch in 1906 or something.
My desert house in La Quinta is about 60 feet below sea level. Beachfront would be at the northern edges of La Quinta and Indio. You can see where sea level is in La Quinta, by looking at the horizontal discoloration line of the rocks at the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains. I inquired about flood insurance precipitated by such a quake, concerned that if the sea comes flooding back in, not only my home, but also my lot would be lost at the bottom of the sea. The premium for this special kind of insurance not covered by ordinary quake insurance, was about 12K a year, so I took a pass. But I was concerned enough about it to inquire.
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