The magnetic north pole just isn’t where it used to be. “The wandering of Earth’s north magnetic pole, the location where the magnetic field points vertically downwards, has long been a topic of scientific fascination,” the researchers write in their paper, which appears in the journal . From 1999 to 2005, Earth’s magnetic north pole went from shifting nine miles at most each year to as much as 37 miles in a year. This spurred the magnetic north pole to slip closer and closer to Siberia, where the magnetic intensity was stronger. In 2017, the North Magnetic Pole fell within 240 miles of the geographic pole.