{"id":27633,"date":"2019-12-17T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=27633"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:00:33","slug":"the-magnetic-north-pole-is-drifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/the-magnetic-north-pole-is-drifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic North Pole crosses the prime meridian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drifting of the magnetic north pole is causing concern among scientists.\u00a0 The current magnetic field model places the magnetic north pole east of the prime meridian.<\/strong>
\nThe earth\u2019s magnetic North Pole<\/a> has been shifting at an alarming rate and now scientists<\/a> indicate that it has crossed the prime meridian. Over the last 20 years, the magnetic north pole has drifted from its original home in Arctic Canada and moved towards Siberia at about 34 miles (55 kilometers) per year.<\/p>\n

Shifting of the magnetic north pole<\/h2>\n

The National Centers for Environmental Information and the British Geological Survey released the latest models of the earth\u2019s magnetic field on December 11<\/a>. The model shows that the drifting will significantly decrease over the next few years, covering a total of approximately 25 miles( 40 kilometers) per year.<\/strong>
\nThe model used to estimate the drift is also used to calibrate GPS used for navigation. The Earth’s magnetic field is created by the churning of the earth’s outer Iron core in what many scientists speculate may be as a result of the inner workings of the planet. Scientists agree that the reason behind this drift in the earth\u2019s magnetic north pole is due to the weakening of the magnetic field.
\nThe data highlighting the strength of the magnetic field and if there is any drift is released every five years. However, this year they had to release an update in February, ahead of the planned 2020 data release due to fast clips of magnetic movements that were being observed.<\/p>\n

Flip-flop of the poles yet undetermined<\/h2>\n

The 2020 data shows a blackout zone which will lead to compasses failing due to their inability to point at the true north pole.<\/strong> New maps are also showing a shift in the magnetic north pole which is now located east of the prime meridian.
\nThere is still so much speculation about what is currently happening in the north pole. Scientists are still not sure if there will be a flip-flop of the poles where the poles will interchange. If that were to happen, the GPS and compass systems would have to be recalibrated since they use the north pole as a point of reference.
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\nFeatured image by Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The drifting of the magnetic north pole is causing concern among scientists.\u00a0 The current magnetic field model places the magnetic north pole east of the prime meridian. The earth\u2019s magnetic North Pole has been shifting at an alarming rate and now scientists indicate that it has crossed the prime meridian. Over the last 20 years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":27640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}