{"id":422,"date":"2010-07-18T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-07-18T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T22:41:27","slug":"magnetic-poles-at-the-equator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/07\/magnetic-poles-at-the-equator-422.html","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Poles at the Equator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20627554.000-magnetic-poles-may-once-have-been-at-equator.html\">research<\/a> suggests that our magnetic poles have sometimes been at the equator. Even more interesting for anyone who thinks a pole shift is possible in 2012 &#8211; this switch occurred multiple times in a 50 million year period. And there is lack of\u00a0intermediary polar locations &#8211; they were either at the poles we have today, or at the equator. This suggests a sudden switch.<\/p>\n<p>Any sudden movement of the magnetic poles could cause problems, but I&#8217;m not aware of any reason why the new pole location matters &#8211; the change and the speed of the change are the important factors. The change is important because anything that currently involves the North pole actually being at the North pole will fall over. That would primarily be locational tools that humans use (GPS, compasses). The speed is critical. Slow is preferable, because fast will most likely leave us without a shield against cosmic radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that our magnetic poles have sometimes been at the equator. Even more interesting for anyone who thinks a pole shift is possible in 2012 &#8211; this switch occurred multiple times in a 50 million year period. And there is lack of\u00a0intermediary polar locations &#8211; they were either at the poles we have today, or at the equator. This suggests a sudden switch.<br \/>\nAny sudden movement of the magnetic poles could cause problems, but I&#8217;m not aware of any reason why the new pole location matters &#8211; the change and the speed of the change are the important factors. The change is important because anything that currently involves the North pole actually being at the North pole will fall over. That would primarily be locational tools that humans use (GPS, compasses). The speed is critical. Slow is preferable, because fast will most likely leave us without a shield against &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magnetic-pole-shift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->