Earth’s magnetic north pole is on the move, and scientists are racing to keep up. This week, the release of the World Magnetic Model 2025 (WMM2025) sheds new light on the enigmatic shifts in Earth’s magnetic field, unveiling critical details that impact navigation, technology, and our understanding of the planet’s core. From pinpointing the pole’s precise location to predicting its future, this latest update carries profound implications.
A Magnetic Mystery: Where Is North Really Going?
Forget the geographic North Pole—it’s static, boring, and sits quietly at 90° latitude. The magnetic north pole, on the other hand, is a restless traveler shaped by the chaotic motions of molten iron in Earth’s core. First pinpointed in 1831 on Canada’s Boothia Peninsula by British explorer James Clark Ross, magnetic north has since wandered over 2,250 kilometers toward Siberia.
At times, it has meandered, and at others, it has sprinted. In the 1990s, the pole began racing at an unprecedented speed of 50–60 kilometers per year, leaving scientists scrambling to keep up. Today, it resides at 86.5°N, 164.0°E—but for how long?
Decoding the Code: A Sharper Look At Earth’s Magnetic Map
The World Magnetic Model (WMM) has always been the gold standard for tracking Earth’s magnetic field. But the 2025 update doesn’t just polish the old map; it revolutionizes how we understand magnetic data.
Previous models captured magnetic variations at a resolution of 3,300 kilometers at the equator—a pixelated view of our planet’s invisible forces. The new WMM2025 improves that resolution to 300 kilometers, providing a high-definition lens to track magnetic shifts with unprecedented precision.
This level of detail is vital, particularly in regions like the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), where Earth’s magnetic field is abnormally weak. Satellites crossing this anomaly face increased radiation exposure, risking equipment damage. With the WMM’s sharper insights, operators can better protect their instruments and navigate the SAA’s challenges.
Why Magnetic North Is the Heartbeat of Modern Tech
Magnetic north isn’t just an academic curiosity—it’s the backbone of our everyday technology. From smartphone apps to autonomous vehicles, accurate magnetic data ensures that devices and navigation systems function seamlessly.
Even the mighty GPS isn’t immune to errors caused by magnetic shifts. Systems that rely on magnetic alignment, such as runway guidance for airplanes and positioning for cargo ships, depend on precise data. Misjudging magnetic north by even a fraction can lead to costly mistakes, grounded flights, or ships straying off course.
The stakes are even higher for military operations. The U.S. Department of Defense integrates the WMM into its navigation systems, ensuring tactical precision. Whether you’re cruising on autopilot or deploying global defense strategies, magnetic accuracy is non-negotiable.
A Wild Sprint and a Mysterious Pause
Magnetic north has been anything but predictable. After centuries of slow wandering, the pole suddenly sped up in the 1990s, clocking 50–60 kilometers per year. The swift pace baffled scientists, who linked the surge to rapid shifts in Earth’s outer core dynamics.
But now, the pole’s movement has slowed dramatically to 35 kilometers per year—its sharpest deceleration in recorded history. What’s behind this slowdown? According to Ciaran Beggan of the British Geological Survey (BGS), “The pole’s movement isn’t linear—it’s a dynamic process driven by a combination of factors that we’re still working to fully understand.”
Could this be a prelude to more surprises? Scientists are delving deep into Earth’s core to find answers.
What’s Causing the Chaos in Earth’s Core?
The key to magnetic north lies buried thousands of kilometers below Earth’s crust. The outer core, a turbulent ocean of molten metal, generates the geomagnetic field that protects the planet from solar radiation. But this system is far from stable.
Recent studies suggest that disruptions in Taylor columns, massive cylinders of swirling liquid aligned with Earth’s rotation, could be behind the magnetic shifts. These columns influence the core’s flow dynamics, and even small changes can ripple through the magnetic field, altering the pole’s path.
With the improved WMM2025, scientists now have a tool to decode these deep mysteries, peeling back layers of Earth’s complex magnetic machinery.
Beyond Navigation: Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Fate of Planets
Earth’s magnetic field is more than a compass—it’s a shield. The South Atlantic Anomaly and other weak spots in the field expose satellites to increased radiation, foreshadowing what could happen if the field continues to weaken. Studying magnetic north isn’t just about understanding Earth; it’s a window into the dynamics of planetary survival.
Mars, for example, lost its magnetic field billions of years ago, leaving its surface vulnerable to harsh solar winds. Could Earth face a similar fate? The data provided by WMM2025 is essential for scientists grappling with this existential question. So, Brace yourselves—Earth’s magnetic saga is far from over.
This is fascinating.
Sounds like we’re heading for a polar flip. And this could take a lot of time. Meanwhile we may be living underground to avoid deadly cosmic radiation from space and the Sun.
I feel that all the minerals in the earth throughout the world play a big part of the magnetic pole. That’s why the rare minerals are there throughout the world underground, causing our magnetic poles to stay inline. But now we have the whole world digging up all the minerals and using them for modern things and for wealth, now we suffer the consequences. Yes I do feel like most great minds who say that we are going to extinct our selves. And it’s all for being selfish.
I feel as though it is all the satellites swirling around the earth. Look at an electo magnet or an alternator. You have the core wrapped with copper when you wrap another layer it makes the positive negative and the negative positive or it looses jmits magnetic nature
Good the hadron colliders be affecting the magnetic pools, or the sun’s gamma rays be affecting it, or the fracking lol I would say combinations of many many things that we are doing to mother Earth and then it’s on natural anomalies, bad thing is none of us are getting out of here alive, good news is there is a God that forgives and protects, and Heaven is at hand believe it or not, we all better get ready because the world is not going to wait, this is the war of the world, and it’s the last stand for its people, get ready because it’s coming!
The poles aren’t shifting the earth is due to the weight being displaced from all the ice melting Antarctica is nolonger heavy part of earth there is going to be tsunami from the earth spinning irregularly just like the floods of time that’s also the reason why they built the pyramids
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The electromagnetic field used to contain particle collisions at CERN is 1000 times greater than the electromagnetic field of earth. Maybe our scientists ought to think of a way to generate an electromagnetic field for the planet to bolster or replace, if needed, the one we already have.
Negative effects are what you get when you take positive core from the earth, All old things become new, Meaning we as humans constantly behave in a manner of our lust for riches, So the past will be our future, We take from the earth and give nothing back, Nothing will always be nothing, until us humans make it something, Born with nothing, die with something is mankind nature!!!! Mother earth is our playground!!!! Simple..
In the 1970s I saw a 1943 aviation map which showed the magnetic pole to be just North of Hudson’s bay. At that time it was about a third of the way to the real North pole. As a pilot I have had a special interest in this. Scientist tell us that geological evidence shows that the Earth’s magnetic orientation has flipped several times during Earth’s history. So to earth, this is nothing new.
I’d say this is the Dzanibekov effect. Nothing can stop the object from flipping due to its spinning.
This has constantly been happening since planet earth was formed.
Seeing that Mars lost its magnetic field causing solar winds, could the magnetic shift be part/all of the cause for our “climate change” that no one is talking about?
I very much appreciate these articles but for us non-scientific minded people could you make them simpler and more to the point.
Thank you for all your hard work.
As all the above comments are great questions. My imagination can’t help but wonder about all the earth’s exploitation…ex. oil drilling, mining, nuclear and weaponry, and so forth. Maybe it is affecting our planet. We are pollutant parasites living here and are impacting the natural state of practically everything.
As all the above comments are great questions and thoughts. My imagination can’t help but wonder about all the earth’s exploitation…ex. oil drilling, mining, nuclear and weaponry, and so forth. Maybe it is affecting our planet. We are pollutant parasites living here and are impacting the natural state of practically everything. Pardon me..but this small phone screen and where I am located service is slow…should be on a computer screen.. so I had not seen all the above comments… excellent minds at work.
People normally think of the ice age as a single event in history. There have been 6 ice ages and 7 interglacial periods. We are in the 7th interglacial. Each ice age is due to a shift in the Earth’s polar axis. The north & south poles have been at various locations during each interglacial. The Earth is due for another shift and thus another ice age. Two questions are: when will the next ice age begin and how will all of man’s technology and pollution affect the coming ice age?
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Duane Roepke
December 23, 2024 at 08:05
Seeing that Mars lost its magnetic field causing solar winds, could the magnetic shift be part/all of the cause for our “climate change” that no one is talking about?
On the magic pull over Sybria, I’ve found it interesting that last astroids too we re over Sybria and wondered and feel it may be connected and wonder what might be ahead for us.
The Earth is doing what it has always done and we can not change nor fool mother nature. She will do what she’s always done. We just are ignorant as to what exactly that is. Because of our own greed and negligence we as a whole need to take a step back and take responsibility for our part in it. The pole shift is the reason for the weather we’ve been experiencing as of late. Let me say this again….. Mother Nature is just doing what she’s always done.
Is there any body listening. Then hear me. It’s the truth.
~Chelle~ just another human
A bigger pardon but the North Pole is not slowing down it will be getting faster and faster you have your information so wrong you need to catch up mainstream the South Poles moving too did you ever think about that one and they’re going to meet out in the middle of the Indian Ocean and what you think’s going to happen when that happens. If you’d like to learn more go to suspicious observers.com it’ll tell you all you need to know
Well, polar opposites repel from one another. . . Idk if the field is strong enough, but it seems like that would be a good explanation for tectonic plate shifts in past polar shift….
Is it not true that the Annanaki changed the rotation of the earth from clockwise to counter clockwise, and the plan is the Galactic federation is going to change the rotation back the way it was originally intended? In doing so, according to information I got, the earth will actually stop rotating for a short period of time, their plan is to block the sun with their giant spacecraft, and this process could take up to three days. Could this have anything to do with the pole shifting? I’m not sure if I dreamt this or maybe I just got fooled (again)
Wow… After reading these comments , I really believe that we need to be wiped out so that life can start again with more intelligent creatures.. It’s happened in the past , it needs to happen again.. We are obviously not the first cycle of intelligent life on this planet… It is abundantly clear there have been more intelligent beings on this planet than what we are capable of breeding this time around……..
About the polar shift.. If you drill into past lava flows and take a large core sample of the many different flows you will see that we have had many many polar shifts throughout history… Scientists have been studying this phenomenon for at least 30 something years and have been talking about the flip and what that may mean for us.. the plane simple fact of it all is nobody knows because there’s nobody around from the last time it happened.. I think we need a sudden polar shift to happen very soon due to the direction that our technology is moving right now.. we need a total shut down and reboot so we can create a new path with a better form of technology.. the level of intelligence has been declining very rapidly with this circle of evolution… Stupidity has been allowed to survive childhood , and allowed to have offspring which perpetuates stupidity… Stupidity raises more stupidity and we’ve had too many generations of that occurring……. it needs to stop……
Is the magnetic poles shifting the reasons why websites like yours have become unreadable because of the millions of ads littered all over the pages?
I have devoted 40+ years to the ancient archeo-astronomies and my conclusion is this: there will be a sudden shift of the axis of rotation toward the new magnetic pole, now more weak and running zigzag wild, now over Siberia. There are two phenomenas meeting at one point, the Great Precessional Year/ Annus Magnus and the current 5th Age of Sun. The complete Codex Mendoza depicts the 7,8 and 9 constellations arranged at the REBIRTH OF AGES and of our world civilisation…There is plenty of encoded dates for both,when approx.they ends…Bible said no one knows the hour and the day, yet, it amazingly holds the month and the year! It is in the ” sacred Ennead”…The Aztecs even pointed in their stone calendar of sun-god Tonatiuh that One Sun Age lasts in solar years( solar calendar), 5,184 years…Furthemore, the Aztecs pointed out that this 5th Age of Sun shall end as ” Ollin”= Movement…After the end of Maya calendar in December 2012, after 13 Bak’tuns, descends upon the world ” Bolon Yokte Ku”, I had identified as Nine Yoked Stars ( bolon= 9, yokte is biblical Yoktan,relative of phallic Peleg, and ku= stars), and the date span is most likely 9+11 years, as the galactic double center= the womb, has 9+11 stars…It is identified as the Swan constellation with its 9 major bright stars of 1st/ 2nd category, which is also the Northern Cross constellation, and in China, it is the Bow constellation…The Chinese were clever in their astronomies, and the Imperial capital city of Gugong in Beijing to build from the terracotta-army( luni-solar calendar) in Xian( Sin-lunar stargate) exactly 1152 kilometers, what is 720 miles as maximum distance of the magnetic North pole to run from the axis of rotation! Similar ” sacred road” has the Sons of the Sun, yhe Inças of Peru/ Bolivia and Equador, across the mountains, from Cusco toward Quito…It was Solar sacred road and from 13 a sacred roads, the lunar was from Cusco in the valleys and coastal area of Pacific down to Chile, about 5,124 kilometers, as One sun age in lunar calendar! As the Inças were the Sons of the Sun, the Chinese were the Sons of the Heavens…The dates I had gathered from many, many ancient and modern monuments goes anywhere from 2025 up to 2033 and even to 2074 as the end of Anno Magnus…In 2025 ends Kali-yuga age and then starts bfief 7 year short period of Sata-yuga= satan’s age, divided unto two periods of 3,5 years of antichrist and satan of 1260 days or time+two times+ half time of 360+720+180 days, or 42 months x 30 days, the 3,5 years…It is in the Book of Daniel and Apocalypse of John, what came from Copan, now Honduras, from the ” Prophetic” Stairways of Balam Jaguar. Even the destruction of Aztlan/ Atlantis/ Mezoamerica is well preserved, in 9,745 BCE…And the best preserved is on the Lid of sun-king Pakal…And I disclose, that also, 9x7x4x5= 1,260…In 2028 ends the 5th Sun Age in Aztec summary of 4 previous sun ages, the year 2029 we will be threatened by Apophis( Chaos) asteroid. Then in 2032 is dated Novus Ordo Seclorum, 3 times dated on the US Great Seal, and 2033 is the Great Jubilee Year of Christ ” born at Winter solstice” December 25, possible Second Coming of the Son & Sun…Bishop Usher dated it on 2036…He calculated our Bible 151 generations x 40 years ( in Numbers) per generation= 6,040 – 4004 our 5th Age of Sun ( nor ” world”) was created= till 2036! There are many,many dates from 2025 to 2033 as the END OF THIS 5TH AGE OF SUN, and the END OF ANNUS MAGNUS IN 2074! IsRaEl means: Is= Virgin/ newborn +Ra= Sun + El is the or god…And there is the 84 years lasting prophecy of existing physical state of modern Israel from 1948 to 2032/ 33!!! 84 is Judgement number !!!
The Shift of the Earth Axis (the ” pin” in Hamlet’s Mill) will set up new North Pole above the Baikal Lake in Siberia, and the South Pole suppose to point toward the Easter island…40+years I had devoted to this, visiting the Serpent cultures of Mesoamerica over dozen times, Giza pyramids and many other monuments in our world…Greeting from Slovakia.
And to the Sun Ages final comment: The Black ” Olmecs” ruled the 3rd Age of Sun, and shluld be called either as the “Jaguar people” or Yama people-as the god/ goddess of the dead and the Black hole, where human souls ascends and descends from…Yama has in Ajanta India a cave for worshippers, and has FIERY EYES ( EYEBROWS) in many pictures from India and Tibet…The Bible describes the same being with FIERY EYES in Apocalypse of John…The Polynesian ” gods” depicting that era have only 3 fingers…The Viracocha of the Inças on the Sun Gate of Tiwanaku has 4 fingers and the Nazca ” Monkey” of transformation from the 4th age to the 5th has on one arm 4 fingers and on the other 5 fingers…And on both legs 3+3 toes and 8 coils of tail…The 4th Age of sun belonged to the Red Indians of America…After them came there the european White colonists who reign in the 5th Sun age and we have 5 fingers…They ended up in nuclear conflict with India, as write Maha’ bharata= Great War, mentioning vimana rockets and decontamination of bodies in that ancient war…The leftover Native American ” Indians” suffered amnesia and could not remember their history…In Indus Valley are radioactive archeological sites even today, after thousands of year, Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and several others…Modern India in those days even attempted to change its name to Bharat…They know why! A such nuclear war now threatens the white race to be annihilated in WW3, between Russia and Europe/ America…Codex Zouche-Nuttall, page 36 depicts the cosmic Serpent/ Dragon= Milky Way, with Sun Chief with 6 feathers in his hairdress, and with one hand direct the white guy to depart to the Jaws and by other hand to proceed to the double-center Womb of our galaxy symbolised by two cubed vessels where heads are afloat in this Cosmic Purgatory of souls…And from behind being born the next ruler of the 6th or Golden Age, the Yellow/ Gold chinese who will colonise Durope and America! So the current political leaders of the West inviting migrants from all over the world, knowing in this END TIMES, what will be our fate anyway!
I am re- reading Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the GODS, Updated, and I see better the connection of the Great Year, Sun Ages and Cataclysm periods…I feel it in my subconsciousness, something big is coming!