Carribean

Posted in South America | 0 comments The islands in the Caribbean will be utterly devastated during the coming shift, hit from several sides. When the Americas move into the Pacific, shortening the distance around the Pacific Rim and widening the Atlantic, the giant continents of North and South America will not simply drift evenhandedly westward. Moving plates move in the direction of least resistance, which in this case is toward the middle of the Pacific hole. Central America loses in this crunch, as do the smaller plates supporting the Caribbean islands. Any island surviving this crush, where smaller plates will subduct under...

Guyana

Posted in South America | 0 comments Guyana is high country, mountainous, and used to the torrential rainstorms that countries near the equator and near the ocean can receive on a regular basis. There are no active volcanoes nearby, the plate stable and unlikely to shatter. However, the very sharp ravines rising up into the mountains will present a danger during the shift itself. Water in the Caribbean, which will first empty during rotation stoppage when the water rushes to the poles and then refill with a sloshing rush as it attempts to return to the new equator, will rush up into the ravines with a tidal bore that will astonish anyone...

Bolivia

Posted in South America | 0 comments Bolivia lies at the heart of the South American plate, thus is old rock not likely to shatter. This will be pushed higher in altitude during the shift, but not by much, and the latitude will not be much more distance from the new equator after the shift than before, so life will continue much the same for survivors. The sun will rise in a different location, and the skies more cloudy due to volcanic dust, and this will puzzle the rustic folk living in the mountains. But lying above the low atmosphere where most of the volcanic dust will linger as it settles provides advantages, as there will be...

Caracas

Posted in South America | 0 comments Venezuelan cities such as Caracas will find themselves suddenly, during the hour of the shift, in a nightmare of rushing water from which they will not be able to escape. When the Atlantic Rift widens dramatically, and the Pacific is put into compression and shortens, water will roar though Central America to fill the gap in the Atlantic. This water will not be a benign tide, a flood tide steadily rising such that those in its path can scramble into boats or seek floatation. It will not even be waves, approaching and crashing down upon them such that they can measure the height and run for the...

Venezuela

Posted in South America | 0 comments Venezuela and other South American countries bordering the Caribbean and Central America must take more avoiding volcanoes and seeking high land into consideration during the shift, as the Caribbean and Central America will crumble during the plate slamming that occurs during the shift, giving way so that water pressure will rush between the Atlantic and Pacific as through a sluice. Rapidly disappearing Caribbean plates will create a sudden compression in water over those plates, which will have nowhere to go. When the Pacific shortens, the gap created by a crumbled Central America will allow a rush...