The Earth core pushes from the North to 60 km per year
According to a new study, the Earth's north pole is being shifted toward Russia about 60 km per year due to changes in the planet's core.
The Earth's core is too deep to directly determine its magnetic field. But scientists can still deduce the changes by tracking the change of the Earth's magnetic field on the surface and in space.
The latest data that has been analyzed shows that there is a rapidly changing magnetic field on the outer surface of the Earth's core, which is likely to be made from some mysterious magnetic area deeper in core.
Arnaud Chulliat, a geophysicist at the Paris Institute of Geophysics in France, said this could be the cause of pulling the north pole further than its inherent position in northern Canada.
The Earth's magnetic pole has changed quite a lot since it was first identified in 1831.
The pole from the North, where every compass needle points, but it is not exactly the North Pole geographically as many people think. Currently the pole is no longer in Ellesmere Island, Canada as it was originally identified.
For the first time, scientists determined the location of the North magnetic pole in 1831. By 1904, it had changed to the Northeast with a relatively steady rate of about 15 km per year.
In 1989, it moved again and in 2007, scientists confirmed that the North pole is moving in the direction of Siberia and Russia at a rate of 55-60 km per year.
Navigators have used the pole from the North for centuries to navigate when they were too far from geographic landmarks they still use to identify.
Today, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has replaced most of the traditional equipment, but many people often have to use the compass to navigate as in cases under the water or under the ground where Cannot contact GPS satellites.
The rapid change in Earth's magnetic poles means that we have to update the magnetic field map more often to allow compass users to accurately navigate based on magnetic poles.
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