Experts from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) have compiled a new, more accurate World Magnetic Model (WMM), as they do every five years.. It showed that the position of the Earth's North Magnetic Pole continues to shift, moving from Canada to Siberia, Science Alert reports..

The geographic North Pole of our planet remains stationary, at the top of the Earth's axis of rotation. The MMM accurately identifies the magnetic North Pole - the place where the Earth's magnetic field points straight down, a perfectly vertical magnetic field.

[see_also ids\u003d"

As the iron and nickel in our planet's core shifts, so does the Earth's magnetic field. This means that both the North and South magnetic poles are constantly moving.. To use compass and GPS systems, it is very important to know where these points are.

“The current behavior of magnetic north is something we have never seen before. Magnetic north has been moving slowly around Canada since the 1500s, but over the past 20 years it has accelerated towards Siberia, increasing speed every year until about five years ago when it suddenly slowed from 50 to 35 kilometers per year, the largest.

Research shows two giant magnetic lobes - one beneath Canada and one beneath Siberia - are driving the shift in magnetic north. Sometimes the shifts are so dramatic that an emergency update is required beyond the normal 5-year cycle.

According to the BGS team, traveling 8,500 kilometers from South Africa to the UK as the crow flies will leave you 150 kilometers off course by the end if you use the old MMM rather than the new one to navigate.

“Major airlines will update navigation software across their fleets to accommodate the new model, and NATO militaries will need to update software on a huge number of complex navigation systems across all types of equipment,” Brown said..

There is no need to update phones or satellite navigators that people use in everyday life, updates will happen automatically.

Let us remind you that NASA specialists are tracking a strange anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field. This is a giant area of \u200b\u200blow magnetic intensity over the planet that extends between South America and South West Africa..