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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 larger giants, will have to deal with tidal waves washing over them and exploding volcanoes.
Going to sea in boats will scarcely be an answer, as the turmoil the water will be undergoing will create vortexes that will capsize large and small boats, and even dash well built submarines in deep water. Surviving in the Caribbean, during this violent shift, will be the exception, and will require luck, not planning.
This world map (in red) is overlaid with an antipodal map (in yellow)
showing the antipodes
of each point on the Earth's surface.
The effect of tidal waves on land have been documented and even recently observed, and are less of a mystery than the effect on those in boats out to sea. It’s well known that tidal waves rise up as they approach shore, due to the increasing shallowness of the seabed.
The water simply has no where else to go. So it would be assumed that boats could ride out the tidal waves, which ordinarily are simply a larger wave out at sea. However, the drama going on within the oceans during a pole shift is different from normal storms. Cross currents develop due to the movement of water first toward the poles, then back, or sloshing to and fro. Cross currents create giant whirlpools, tales of yore which are taken to be myths.
There is no escape, once caught, and
boats large and small are pulled into the maw. The tornado of the
ocean. Likewise, staying close to shore in a boat, in hopes of
riding out the earthquakes, will likely find the boat and passengers
lifted and carried inland to be dashed at the tip of a wave against
the land. This can be as damaging as any quake on a hut or house.
The lands between the south of Mexico and north edge of Colombia will not fare well during the coming pole shift, due to several factors, all of which are essentially fatal to those living there.
Costa Rica and the Yucatan Peninsula, being low lying areas subject to ocean sloshing, will find the flood tide washing over them during the hour of the shift, washing away or drowning all who live there.
For Panama, of course, there can be no question as it is already threatened by rising seas. Higher points in Central America, the mountains of El Salvador and Nicaragua, are riddled with volcanoes, which will be regularly erupting as the shift approaches and will explode violently during the hour of the shift itself. Thus, there is little safety there, even temporarily.
During the time when the plates are slamming into each other, Central America and the Caribbean will suffer, as the weak link. These small plates will crumble and be crushed, creating such instability that anticipating a land ride in any of these locations is an extreme toss of the dice.
After the shift, the rising sea level will put all who survive under water in these locations.
Those who
wish to survive and have the means to take action are advised not to
be in Central America or the Caribbean during the shift.
Mexico will in general do well during and after the shift, as subducting plates are more of a problem for the West Coast of the US and Canada than Mexico, there being more broken plates in the general area of Central America to take the shock.
Where much of Mexico will remain intact after the pole shift, but those portions close to Central America will experience the same destruction from fault line crossing and plate crumbling that Central America and the Caribbean will experience. When large plates are on the move, slamming into each other, small plates are crushed, being the small-fry in the fray.
Mexico has an additional caution in that
Central America will disappear under the waves when the Pacific
shortens, the many small plates being the point of least resistance
against larger plates surrounding Central America. Stay inland,
central to Mexico as a country, for best results.
With oceans to the new south and north, they will find rains plentiful, and these former deserts will bloom. However, there are several cautions when choosing a safe location within Mexico. As with any country, active or inactive volcanoes should be avoided, staying at least 100 miles from either.
However, the volcanic activity that
plagues the current southern Mexico will be moved to the far east of
the new Mexico, blowing away from, rather than across, the land.
Coastlines should be avoided, staying 100 miles inland and at least
200 feet above sea level to avoid tidal waves.
Mexico City will endure much suffering during the shift, due to the nearby presence Popocatepetl, of one of Mexico’s largest and most active volcanoes, and other volcanoes nearby. Because of the pressure of the shortening Pacific, causing Central America and the small plates in the Caribbean to crumble, being the weakest link, the magma under Mexico will be in motion and under pressure.
This too will seek the weakest link, which most certainly will be any active volcano. Roads in and out of Mexico City will be impassable, and the millions there dying from fumes and hot ash - a holocaust. Little will survive in that crowded city, and those who do survive will live in ill-health due to the ash.
Those who would survive should seek
safety inland, into the desert plateaus, away from the coastlines,
volcanoes, and putting distance between themselves and the crumbling
small plates in Central America.
Guadalajara, situated near the west coast of Mexico, today enjoys the coastal access, but during the shift this same proximity will spell doom to the residents. The Pacific will shorten, the Atlantic widen, and Central America crumble, creating a larger causeway between the oceans than Panama currently allows.
Water will rush from the Pacific to the Atlantic, roaring along the Mexican coast-line on its way to this outlet. Rapidly moving water can be forced up into ravines and inland, tidal bore, to relieve the pressure, reaching even to the gateways of Guadalajara. Thus more than a flood tide will present during the shift.
Rampaging waters will sweep away anyone
caught in its grip. After the shift, the current coastline will go
underwater in the main, due to polar ice cap melting, but
Guadalajara will have easier coastal access which will afford good
ocean fishing. There will be plenty of rain for a few crops in the
gloom, and a temperate climate, equivalent to what it enjoys today.
During any turmoil in the waters along coast lines, peninsulas suffer the most. Clashing waters occur there, creating situations not found along normal coastlines which have only one surface exposed to the water and only one direction for water movement. A peninsula, particularly a narrow one of low elevation, sill not only be washed over, during high and vigorous tides, but will also find itself the point where clashing waters meet. How does this occur?
During the shortening of the Pacific, water first washes in from the Pacific, over the peninsula, and then inland along the coast, having been buffered to some degree by the slowing of flow over the Baja land. The water then wants to slosh back, seeking its level, and starts a return toward the Baja peninsula.
On the return trip, which is a bit slower than the ocean at large as the tidal trust was diminished by the original trip over the Baja landmass, it will meet with water once again sloshing inland from the Pacific, as this slosh has a higher frequency. In like manner, devastation in earthquakes in high buildings in cities is caused more from these buildings having a difference in sway frequency, being of differing heights, than the original jolting of quakes. They smash into each other.
During the sloshing that occurs after
the shift, the Baja will find itself with waters draining away from
both sides, but also with waters coming from both sides, clashing
and building up over the land mass of the Baja. This will scour the
land clean, and nothing will survive.
The deserts surrounding Chihuahua will be tropical and lush in the future, but re-hydrated deserts take time to recover from their past, and this takes decades, not years or months, to fully flower. Deserts do more than bake hard, they lack bacteria and humus by which to support plant life.
Baked hard, without water, much of the land is lifeless, and without soil or wetlands to capture rain, the runoff scours the land clean so soil or humus is often lost, not gained, in the early years. Eventually, pockets of wetlands develop, soil accumulating, in areas where rapid runoff cannot occur. This can be assisted by man, survivors, by creating rock and gravel dams, holding back the runoff.
Eventually, migrating fauna and flora arrive, and populate the wetlands and inland ponds, and the transformation to a sub-tropical land picks up the pace. During the shift itself, those living in and around Chihuahua will find their greatest worry to be resident from more populace area, Mexico City, who learn at the last minute of the predictions for their area, and flee their neighboring volcano, going north.
These migrants will be unlikely to
remain in what they consider a desert area, but will push forward,
toward the US, toward lands they recall hearing about from family
and friends working in the US. Thus, it will be travelers, not
settlers, that will be the greatest worry for survivors in
Chihuahua.
Stretching out into the ocean, Florida has a tenuous position during the coming cataclysms. The strikes against it are many. The land is too low to offer safe haven to tidal waves, which will roll over the state without hindrance, from one side to the other. When the Atlantic stretches, just prior to the shift, the lands closest to the equator will feel the draw the most, as this is where the Atlantic rifts are deepest.
Thus, where land in the southeastern US will be pulled under to the degree that water may lap at cities high in the Appalachian mountains, along the eastern seaboard, it will surely pull Florida under the water long enough to drown the populace totally. Those in boats will find they must contend with whirlpools and sloshing water that can capsize even large ocean going vessels.
And those in skyscrapers likewise should not assume that their foundations will not be undercut and eroded. This is not a safe place.
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