In 50 years from now, where will California be?

Question

6. Fifty years from now, where do scientist predict California will be?

A moving south and closer to Antarctica

b exactly where it always has been

c moving east and towards the interior of North America

d moving north and away from North America

What is the answer??

Answer 1

collasped into the ocean

Answer 2

100 cm farther away from europe.kinda b beouse the continent moves 2cm away frm europe every year.

Answer 3

In 50 years, the answer is b. The relative movement along the fault is of an inch and a half per year. 50 years, 75 inches, barely six feet, nobody will notice it.

But in a few million years, the answer is "none of the above". The slice west of the fault (including LA) is moving northwest and the rest of the landmass is moving southeast, but the LA slice is not really moving "away" from North America, it's moving alongside the fault. The fault is not going to crack open creating an abyss like in bad sci-fi movies. The movement simply rearranges the soil from both sides. So if you set an observation point west of LA, say in Mojave, and you check with a few years' interval, you will see LA in its entirety moving northwest, but you won't find any wide crack anywhere on the ground.

Answer 4

In 50 years from now California will be either (b) exactly were it is or (d) moving north and away from North America more precisely near Alaska.

Answer 5

e. none of the above.

Part of California is even now moving north and west.  But the area we call California is split by the boundry between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.  Whilst LA may be moving on up, Barstow may not be.  However, the movement is very incremental, less than a centimeter per year I believe.  Which means in fifty years, we won't have moved even a single meter northwards.

Answer 6

e) a slum with all the illegal aliens

Answer 7

D.

It'll take a few million years for Los Angeles to end up north of San Francisco.

Answer 8

all the scientists that are living in california are most likely banking on b.

Answer 9

Continental drift leading to the pangea supercontinent causes the answer to be... c

Also, there is a plate that splitting just off it coast, meaning thats its getting pushed in if i remeber which way everything is moving!

But tbh, after the next 50 years the continental migration is going to be a matter of centemeters, as we are expecting the superconinents formation in arround 250 millions years.

Answer 10

probably over run by mexicans and half way underwater

Answer 11

The answer would be D.

That is the direction that the plate carrying it is moving.

Answer 12

exactly where it has always been

Answer 13

B

Answer 14

most likely underwater,

so none of the above.

Answer 15

California is moving northward so the most applicable answer is D.

Answer 16

in the pacific ocean //

Answer 17

The coast of California, south of san francisco, is "d"

Answer 18

In 50 years California will be back in Mexico.

       +++Spock+++

Answer 19

Let me put it to you this way:  If you own property in Arizona hold on to it because in 50 years it will undoubtedly be water front property!

Answer 20

it will break off from the united states because someone cut it off with a pair of scissors, and it will float across the sea thanks to a school of fish and connect to africa, being held there with duct tape!!!

no, it'll just stay put where it is

Answer 21

Lived in San Diego all my life untill 2002, and regardless of where it ends up geographically, it will most certainly become Mexico,

You do the math.

Answer 22

Exactly where it is, but th Inland Empire would be where LA is.

Answer 23

100 cm west of where it is now

Answer 24

50 years is inconsequential on a geologic time scale.

California will basically where it is now.  The section west of the San Andreas fault will have shifted north slightly.

Answer 25

d.  moving north and away from North America... at about 2 inches per year that should be about 8 feet 4 inches.

Answer 26

Maybe nowhere .... There may be a bomb attack and the whole of California may disappear from the Earth .... lol

Answer 27

I don't know.  No one can really be sure what will happen to California 50 years from now.  All those enumerated are possible and others too.  California could go underwater should the huge and much-anticipated earthquake hits it.  

On the brighter side California will still be there and that is what I would like to believe.

teddy boy

Answer 28

300 miles east of hawaii