04.10.2021 - 07:50 [ ScienceAlert.com ]

Earth‘s Magnetic North Pole Has Shifted So Much We‘ve Had to Update GPS

(6 FEBRUARY 2019)

Scientists on Monday released an emergency update to the World Magnetic Model, which cellphone GPS systems and military navigators use to orient themselves.

It‘s a minor change for most of us – noticeable only to people who are attempting to navigate very precisely very close to the Arctic.

But the north magnetic pole‘s inexorable drift suggests that something strange – and potentially powerful – is taking place deep within Earth