No, on the contrary, over millions of years it is likely that California will gain land by a geological process called 'terrain accretion', by which bits of oceanic crust are plastered against the existing land by oblique tectonic collision. That is not to say that a few very small chunks of land couldn't fall into the sea as a result of displacement by earthquakes, but not even remotely on the scale envisioned by Hollywood.
In addition, the vast majority of land that ends up in the sea gets transported by normal erosion and deposition, grain by rain, every time it rains.
Don't believe media dramatization. Geological processes are dominated not by catastrophes but by what are called 'uniformitarian processes' that act so slowly that you normally don't even notice, like continents drifting around the Earth's surface at about the same speed that your fingernails grow.
Gordon Stanger,
Australian geologist
In addition, the vast majority of land that ends up in the sea gets transported by normal erosion and deposition, grain by rain, every time it rains.
Don't believe media dramatization. Geological processes are dominated not by catastrophes but by what are called 'uniformitarian processes' that act so slowly that you normally don't even notice, like continents drifting around the Earth's surface at about the same speed that your fingernails grow.
Gordon Stanger,
Australian geologist