Wonders in the Heavens: Earth's north magnetic pole moving to Siberia at rapid rate: scientists - Yahoo! News

Earth's north magnetic pole moving to Siberia at rapid rate: scientists - Yahoo! News: "Earth's north magnetic pole is rapidly drifting away from Canada and toward Siberia, scientists said Thursday.

Despite accelerated movement over the last century, the possibility Earth's modestly fading magnetic field will collapse is remote. The magnetic poles are part of the magnetic field generated by liquid iron in Earth's core and are different from the geographic poles, the surface points marking the axis of the planet's rotation.

Scientists have long known magnetic poles migrate and in rare cases, swap places. Exactly why this happens is a mystery."