{"id":87465,"date":"2019-02-06T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/earths-magnetic-north-pole-has-shifted-so-much-weve-had-to-update-gps"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:22:31","slug":"earths-magnetic-north-pole-has-shifted-so-much-weve-had-to-update-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/earths-magnetic-north-pole-has-shifted-so-much-weve-had-to-update-gps","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Magnetic North Pole Has Shifted So Much We\u2019ve Had to Update GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-magnetic-north-pole-has-shifted-so-much-weve-had-to-update-gps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetic north is not where it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, the place to which a compass points has been sprinting toward Siberia at a pace of more than 30 miles (48 kilometres) a year. And this week, after a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2019\/01\/17\/north-pole-is-moving-shutdown-means-we-arent-keeping-up\/?utm_term=.26aa5fcf146b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> delay caused by the month-long partial government shutdown<\/a> in the United States, humans have finally caught up.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists on Monday released an emergency update to the World Magnetic Model, which cellphone GPS systems and military navigators use to orient themselves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/navigation-systems-finally-caught-up-with-the-mysteriously-north-pole-shift\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/navigation-systems-finally-caug...pole-shift<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic north is not where it used to be. Since 2015, the place to which a compass points has been sprinting toward Siberia at a pace of more than 30 miles (48 kilometres) a year. And this week, after a delay caused by the month-long partial government shutdown in the United States, humans have finally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87465","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}