There is a park in downtown San Diego named “Fault Line Park.” It is split in two by a fault associated with the Rose Canyon Fault Zone. They are so proud of the fault that they have created a walkway on top of it and, on either side, is a huge mirrored ball.
The balls were installed exactly opposite each other, but the eastern ball is slipping southward, and the western ball is slipping northward. In the western ball is a hole through which you can look to see if the two balls still are lined up exactly.
They are right now since the park was built in 2014, and the slippage is only 1 mm/year.
Quite interesting.
Of course, I did take a selfie in each mirrored ball.
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Terrific selfies and what a cool post. Not sure I like to think about the fault line, though.
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I discovered that I would rather be constantly prepared for an earthquake rather than preparing every year for hurricanes. As my wise old grandmother told me in 1966: “It doesn’t matter where you live, there’s always something.”
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Your grandmother was very wise 😀
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Interesting place for a park and a walkway! It’s great though and it’s a lovely spot for selfies!
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This area used to be warehouses, homeless, drugs, and gangs. When they built the baseball park for the Padres, redevelopment moved in. There are four news skyscrapers here, but they can’t build a skyscraper on a fault line. It has to be one side or the other, so they “developed” this land by making it into a cool park.
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Wow what a transformation! The UK could take some useful lessons from it 🙂 It looks amazing and is definitely a very cool park! 😀
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Building the ball park had been voted down by the people, as had our new library, but when government wants something, they find a way. In this case, I’m glad they did because it really revitalized the eastern part of downtown San Diego where few people would go, day or night, unless protected by being surrounded by a semi or thick warehouse walls.
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Why would people want to vote down a new library! They’re closing many of ours from lack of funds and people are crying out for new ones – they provide many services and the elderly suffer when the smaller ones are shut down. I’m glad yours went ahead! And the revitalization of this area😀
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Money. The city was in the red a few billion dollars when we voted. A couple of years later, when the city was fiscally solvent again, the City Council approved the library.
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