People often say that California is going to "fall into the ocean,". This idea is totally wrong because the San Andreas fault would have to be a ________ fault associated with ________ forces for this to happen

A) normal; tension
B) normal; compression
C) reverse; tension
D) reverse; compression
E) strike-slip; compression


A

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