{"id":86197,"date":"2018-12-28T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mysterious-anomaly-under-africa-is-weakening-earths-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:02:50","slug":"mysterious-anomaly-under-africa-is-weakening-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/mysterious-anomaly-under-africa-is-weakening-earths-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Anomaly Under Africa Is Weakening Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-anomaly-under-africa-is-weakening-earths-magnetic-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could be precursor to Earth\u2019s poles swapping places.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Above our heads, something is not right. Earth\u2019s magnetic field is in a state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-study-shows-that-earth-s-magnetic-field-is-weakening-more-rapidly-than-we-thought\">dramatic weakening<\/a> \u2013 and according to mind-boggling research from earlier this year, this phenomenal disruption is part of a pattern lasting for over 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s magnetic field doesn\u2019t just give us our north and south poles; it\u2019s also what protects us from solar winds and cosmic radiation \u2013 but this invisible force field is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/earth-s-magnetic-poles-could-be-about-to-swap-places\">rapidly weakening<\/a>, to the point scientists think it could actually flip, with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/earth-magnetic-poles-reversal-switch-overdue-turbulent\">magnetic poles reversing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As crazy as that sounds, this actually does happen over vast stretches of time. The last time it occurred was about 780,000 years ago, although it got close again around 40,000 years back.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mysterious-anomaly-under-africa-is-weakening-earth-s-magnetic-field\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mysterious-anomaly-under-africa...etic-field<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be precursor to Earth\u2019s poles swapping places. Above our heads, something is not right. Earth\u2019s magnetic field is in a state of dramatic weakening \u2013 and according to mind-boggling research from earlier this year, this phenomenal disruption is part of a pattern lasting for over 1,000 years. Earth\u2019s magnetic field doesn\u2019t just give [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86197","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}