The magnetic North Pole, a cornerstone of Earth’s geomagnetic field, has always been on the move—but not like this.

The planet's magnetic North Pole, where compasses point ... of the earth that generates the magnitude," William Brown, a geomagnetic field modeler at the BGS, said to The Independent.

The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is about 1,200 miles south and is where geomagnetic field lines are vertical. Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy ...