Posted on 10/14/2025 12:31:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists have discovered that a 'weak spot' in Earth's magnetic field is growing at an alarming rate.
Known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), the region has expanded by an area nearly twice the size of Texas since 2014, and it is also slowly shifting westward toward Africa, according to a new study released on Monday.
The SAA has increased by up to 25 percent, as it moves about 14 miles west each year.
The expansion and movement are the result of turbulent flows of molten iron in Earth’s outer core, which generate unusual magnetic patterns that weaken the field in this part of the planet.
The Earth’s magnetic field, created by the swirling liquid iron thousands of miles beneath the surface, acts as a protective shield against dangerous charged particles from the sun and cosmic radiation.
Scientists warned that the weakening and shifting of this shield in the SAA is not just a scientific curiosity but has real-world consequences.
The SAA poses the greatest threat to satellites passing overhead, exposing spacecraft to higher levels of radiation that can temporarily disable electronics, corrupt data, or even cause permanent damage to critical hardware.
Satellites providing GPS, communications, and weather forecasting services for the US and around the world are particularly vulnerable when they pass through the anomaly.
Lead author Chris Finlay, Professor of Geomagnetism at the Technical University of Denmark, said in a statement: 'It's changing differently towards Africa than it is near South America.
'There's something special happening in this region that is causing the field to weaken in a more intense way.'
While regions outside of Earth contribute to the observed magnetic field, the primary source stems from inside the planet.
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They can’t even get the direction correct and we’re supposed to believe they’re experts about the other?
Aahhh, yikes, global warming strikes again!
Thank you.
Its the Obama effect.
Run for your lives....er.. wives?
Of course it would happen AFTER canning season is over.
It couldn't happen while I was slaving over hot cauldrons no, it has to happen after we finish and before we start eating on the fruit of our labors.
The heck with it, I am going to break out the peaches and make a cobbler.
It will happen and will probably happen suddenly. It could happen tomorrow or in several hundred years.
I try to worry about things in the order that they are most likely going to kill me. The flipping of Earth's magnetic field falls under the same category as an extinction level asteroid strike, the supernova of a nearby star, another ice age, or the eruption of the super volcano under Yellowstone park. They have all happened before and are all certain to happen again someday, but probably not within my lifetime or the lifetimes of my children, my grandchildren, or the next several generations of their descendants.
Yes. This comes up every every ten years or so and a bunch of people start fear mongering about the imminent magnetic pole flip.
They should be worried about the other kind of pole flip (tectonic) where Antarctica moves closer to the equator and North America moves closer to the North Pole
This is a big slap to those who thought the Earth was shiftless.
That is what I was thinking.
Don't bother them with details!
Well, the Book of Revelation does say the earth is going to burn up after the thousand year reign. Maybe this is how.
Don’t joke, The Science says this is clearly anthropogenic in orgin and if we don’t kill all of our cattle, return to paleolithic tools and enact gender affirming freelove on a global scale, we’ll only have 3.141592654 years left! Al Gore’s lingam is alarmingly dependant on decisive action!
But I'm not certain of that.
Don’t look at me! I didn’t do it.
3eye_atlas;-)
Well, since all we smart people know the earth is flat, how is this even possible? 😁
That's okay, it'll buff out.
“There’s a magnetic pole flip that is due any century now. It should cause a lot of extinctions, mutations, and general havoc.”
It takes about 7,000 years for a pole reversal.
That right where God kicked to place it into orbit around the sun.
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