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THIS is what Earth sounded like when North Pole became South Pole: Scientists turn ancient chaos into eerie sound
Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...
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Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal: Listen The Earth's Magnetic Fields Flip 780,000 Years In The Past
The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...
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The world's dams hold enough water to shift the poles by a metre
The weight of water locked up in the world’s approximately 7,000 dams is enough to not only fill the Grand Canyon twice, but ...
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Why Earth’s Magnetic Pole Reversals Are So Fascinating
A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ends of the magnetosphere, which surrounds the Earth like a giant, invisible ...
Whoopsie, Humans Built So Many Dams That We Shifted the North Pole by 3 Feet
The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...