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While the speed of the earth's magnetic north pole shift has drastically sped up lately to about 34 miles per year (55 km), let's look at what is happening with the south magnetic pole.
Every magnetic field has two polarities, North and South for example, and one might think that whatever is happening with one pole would be happening (in the inverse?) to it's opposite pole.
Well as it appears, the earth's magnetic south pole is not behaving similarly to it's opposite north pole. In fact, it's drift, or pole shift, is actually slowing down! Presently it's only moving 3 miles (5 km) per year, only a tenth the speed of the north!
(Pole coordinate data sourced from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center)
Not only that, but it is interesting to note that both the north and south magnetic poles are favoring one side of the earth - the south pole is heavily favoring one side, and continues to move further away from true south.
The south magnetic pole is actually 1,800 miles (2,900 km) away from the earth's true south pole! That is a substantial offset.
The north magnetic pole is fairly near true north and is 'only' about 360 miles (580 km) away.