The end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth's magnetic poles reverse. When north goes ...

The end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth's magnetic poles reverse. When north goes ...

What Happened and When. The World Magnetic Model 2025, released by the NOAA and the British Geological Survey, has provided the latest update on the predicted position of the Earth's magnetic fields.

The pole's recent speed up is just one of a number of anomalies that have unexpectedly thrown the world's magnetic field map slightly out of whack and prompted an earlier-than-scheduled update ...

The first global map of magnetic peculiarities ... The World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map (WDMAM) ... (Earth's dipole field varies from 35,000 nanoTesla (nT) at the Equator to 70,000 nT at the poles).

The World Magnetic Model (WMM) — the name of the updated representation of the magnetic field of Earth — is expected to be released no earlier than Jan. 30. That's about two weeks later than ...

A recent study showed that during the Laschamps excursion, a recent period of low magnetic field intensity which occurred only 41,000 years ago, the global cosmic ray flux reaching the Earth's ...

The north magnetic pole’s observed locations from 1831–2007 are yellow squares. Modeled pole locations from 1590–2025 are circles progressing from blue to yellow. Credit: National Centers ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Global shifts. The shifting of the North Pole has a big impact on the World Magnetic Model, which "predicts where the pole should be at any one time," said The Times.This model "helps to direct ...