Where are the Earth's Magnetic Poles heading?
Did you know that the Earth's magnetic poles are moving?
Did you know that the Earth's magnetic poles have flipped many times in the past?
As with most data, we only have a small amount on the movement of the Earth's magnetic poles. So, we don't know how long it took for them to flip in the past or how far they marched to a new location before flipping.
But, we now know, it isn't a steady march.
The North Magnetic Pole has done some massive movements over the past few decades. It has made it's way over the North Pole and is making a slow march down to London.
[ Source: World Data Center for Geomagnetism ]
The South Magnetic Pole might not be doing as fast of a march, but it is no longer on Antarctica.
[ Source: World Data Center for Geomagnetism ]
What they are heading towards in a magnetic pole swap. But, there are theories that when that happens, it won't be a quick swap. In fact, some believe that it will be a magnetic mess and we could have the poles sort of centered in Africa. But, I believe there is a different location to watch for this meeting of the poles.
Vanuatu
Vanuatu is located in the Oceania area between Fiji and Australia. It sounds like a great place to live, if you don't mind earthquakes.
[ Source: Earthquake Track]
I have noticed that Vanuatu gets a lot of earthquakes. Deep earthquakes.
As the north pole moves down through London and the South pole moves up towards South Africa, they will probably meet at spot directly around the world from Vanuatu.
Basically, the poles won't just be on the one spot, they have to be on another spot in the planet as well. Think of it as a rod going through the center of the Earth. I think watching Vanuatu quakes might be a warning to a pole shift.
The magnetic pole flip is either caused the by the dip in the Earth's magnetic field or the pole flip might be causing it. Either way, it is not a good thing. The Earth's magnetic field is already weakened due to the lack of sunspot activity. This has allowed for cosmic rays to increase cloud cover. At the moment, the more clouds has resulted in a very wet 2017. It will lead to cooler temperatures. For the most part, scientists think that nothing much will happen with the pole flip. But, the last one lasted for 100s of years. 100s of years of an unstable weak magnetic field will lead to very cold temperatures. And, the last flip happened 700,000 years ago, before these smart scientist were born.
Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal, the Brunhes-Matuyama, that occurred around 780,000 years ago. A temporary reversal, the Laschamp event, occurred around 41,000 years ago, and lasted less than 1,000 years with the actual change of polarity lasting around 250 years.
Yeah...just a nothing burger.
My own research on the topic covers much the same, but one fellow in particular points to the Solstice this winter as a significant date. He provides his own reasoning and data to support his claims, see for yourself: https://steemit.com/science/@ecoknowme/anyone-know-anything-about-pole-shift-should-i-start-googling-underground-gardening cheers @ecoknowme
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I've heard of the poles moving before, but didn't realize it was very significant.
It has picked up as the Sun's activity has dropped. So, there must be some sort of correlation.
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I was planning on doing a post about this topic. But now idk
My post is over 20 days, it won't get much notice anymore.