Question I couldn't find on Google: is a Continental Divide a fault line?

[LakeArenal]

Thanks

Also, we just felt an earthquake… Very exciting.

[elleng]

1. A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent

such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not connected to the open sea. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_divide

[Tetrachloride]

2. Continental Divide definition is where rivers flow to another river basin

group, west or east (or south to the Gulf of Mexico).

[tblue37]

3. No. It's based on watersheds & on whether rivers flow into the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.

There are other divides, too, but I assume you mean the one that runs through the Americas.

[LakeArenal]

4. Thank you. I know what it is but I wondered if it is a fault line.

We live on the Pacific side. Over the mountain is the Gulf side.

When I felt the earthquake I wondered if we were on a fault as well.

[bluedigger]

5. The North American Continental Divide is a fault line, more or less.

The Rockies were formed by the Trans–Rocky Mountain Fault System. where tectonic plates slipped under the North American plate. https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1334/pdf/C1334.pdf

[roamer65]

7. "We all have our little faults..."

“Mine’s in California.”

-Lex Luthor.