{"id":204479,"date":"2025-01-24T23:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/earths-magnetic-north-pole-is-officially-moving-scientists-just-updated-its-location"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:32:05","slug":"earths-magnetic-north-pole-is-officially-moving-scientists-just-updated-its-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/earths-magnetic-north-pole-is-officially-moving-scientists-just-updated-its-location","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Magnetic North Pole Is Officially Moving \u2014 Scientists Just Updated Its Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-magnetic-north-pole-is-officially-moving-scientists-just-updated-its-location3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_magnetic_pole\">magnetic North Pole<\/a> is officially being changed, continuing its shift away from Canada and towards Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) have joined forces \u2013 as they do every five years \u2013 to produce a new, more accurate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/world-magnetic-model-2025-released\">World Magnetic Model<\/a> (WMM).<\/p>\n<p>While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth\u2019s rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints the magnetic North Pole \u2013 where Earth\u2019s magnetic field points straight down, a perfectly vertical magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially being changed, continuing its shift away from Canada and towards Siberia. Experts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) have joined forces \u2013 as they do every [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}