A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY: On June 23rd, Earth’s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe. There was no solar storm or geomagnetic storm to cause the disturbance. So what was it?
Lately, Earth’s magnetic field has been quiet. Very quiet. The sun is in the pits of what may turn out to be the deepest Solar Minimum in a century. Geomagnetic storms just aren’t happening.
“That’s why I was so surprised on June 23rd when my instruments picked up a magnetic anomaly,” reports Stuart Green, who operates a research-grade magnetometer in his backyard in Preston UK. “For more than 30 minutes, the local magnetic field oscillated like a sine wave.”
This chart recording shows a magnetic wave rippling through Preston UK on June 23, 2020. Credit: Stuart Green.
Green quickly checked solar wind data from NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. “There was nothing–no uptick in the solar wind speed or other factors that might explain the disturbance,” he says.
He wasn’t the only one who noticed. In the Lofoten islands of Norway, Rob Stammes detected a similar anomaly on his magnetometer. “It was remarkable,” he says.
“Our magnetic field swung back and forth by about 1/3rd of a degree. I also detected ground currents with the same 10 minute period.”
What happened? Space physicists call this phenomenon a “pulsation continuous” or “Pc” for short. Imagine blowing across a piece of paper, making it flutter with your breath. Solar wind can have a similar effect on magnetic fields. Pc waves are essentially flutters propagating down the flanks of Earth’s magnetosphere excited by the breath of the sun. During more active phases of the solar cycle, these flutters are easily lost in the noise of rambunctious geomagnetic activity. But during the extreme quiet of Solar Minimum, such waves can make themselves “heard” like a pin dropping in an silent room.
Magnetic observatories around the world detected the wave on June 23, 2020. Credit: INTERMAGNET
Earth’s magnetic field was so quiet on June 23rd, the ripple was heard all around the world. INTERMAGNET‘s global network of magnetic observatories picked up wave activity at the same time from Hawaii to China to the Arctic Circle. There’s even a hint of it in Antarctica.
Pc waves are classified into 5 types depending on their period. The 10-minute wave on June 23rd falls into category Pc5. Slow Pc5 waves have been linked to a loss of particles from the van Allen radiation belts. Energetic electrons surf these waves down into Earth’s atmosphere, where they dissipate harmlessly.
With Solar Minimum in full swing, there’s never been a better time to study these waves. Keep quiet … and stay tuned for more.
Story from SpaceWeather.com it is well worth visiting this site
“A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY: On June 23rd, Earth’s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe. There was no solar storm or geomagnetic storm to cause the disturbance. So what was it?”
UFOs maybe?????
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/12/03/tcruparody/
“S0 News Jun.24.2020”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ucaFJVFNk
Earth facing coronal hole which directly connected to the earth yesterday with its interplanetary magnetic fields
I would imagine it’s from the inner core maybe core quake.
That was my first thought, too. Quake may not be quite the right word, but if the iron core isn’t isothermal, different crystalline species may be forming or transitioning. Different phases may have different densities, magnetic properties, chemical compositions, or thermal conductivities.
They’re right schedule. Our betters having failed at every eaethly level to oust our heaven-sent president, an invasion from space aliens is next on their agenda.
Welcome bros.
This wasn’t space weather’s conclusion though.
I wonder if this might have anything to do with the fact that all the planets of the Solar System, except for Uranus and Neptune, are currently lined up into a super-syzygy? Look it up. On my Apple Watch display they are lined up to about the 5 o’clock position on an anolog watch. So, would that change the magnetic properties of the Solar system. Remember, space is full of charged particles.
Everyone is neglecting the elephant in the room – Trump – this magnetic dalliance was due to Trump – all the never Trumpers would agree
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Also of note was that there was a spike of large quakes globally after 5 months of relative quiet behavior. For five days in a row strong quakes hit at different spots around the planet. The planet finally quieted down just in the last 24 hours.
Here is the planetary alignment. I left a related comment at SpaceWeather yesterday about this, … https://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/
“So, would that change the magnetic properties of the Solar system. ”
No.
Um, yes.
I was sitting at my desk and I felt it.
I hadn’t received any training until I was 8 years old, almost too late by most standards. So, even with my limited abilities, being able to feel it, means that somewhere there was a significant disturbance of the Force.
Hey, it is 2020.
Lucifer farted
Unicorns all farting at once – quick, let’s figure out how to capture that energy . . ! 🙂
That’s silly.
Everyone knows that unicorn farts are the benign energy source of the Shining Green Future.
hello!!
Have you read Immanual Velikofskys worlds in collision or earth in upheaval? last polar switch was around -700 to -800 BC
“Reversal occurrences are statistically random. There have been 183 reversals over the last 83 million years. The latest, the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, occurred 780,000 years ago,”
Wiki…
Probably slightly more believable than Velikovsky…
Yes. The last reversal was a long time ago and the average time between them is measured in hundreds of thousands of years.
The North Pole is currently going walkabout, heading into Russia at a mile or two per week. But as I understand it, it’s more likely to just wander around for a few decades than do a full reversal.
From observing the earth’s magnetic field over the last few decades, it appears that the reversal won’t be a case of the entire magnetic field weakening, turning off, then growing again with the opposite polarity.
Rather areas of reversed magnetic orientation, such as the current patch in the S. Atlantic, form, grow larger and more numerous, until they come to dominate and become the new normal.
MarkW, the time for a reversal to complete was the subject of a previous comment by myself. I utilized a normally-polarized intrusion, the adjacent (genetically associated) reversely-polarized magnetite skarn (tactite), the cooling rate of the skarn to pass below the Curie Point, and came up with around 150 to 200 years. For sure this is back-of-the-envelope science, but it was an interesting result.
There really isn’t a true reversal ever. The “reversal” period is more like a random and weak period.
We really do live in a unique time….
Predictions concerning what is going to happen, to the geomagnetic field need to explain why the geomagnetic field started to abruptly change in 1990. They also need to explain why the geomagnetic field intensity drops in the geomagnetic paleo record by roughly a factor of 5 to 10 …. roughly every 30,000 years and then ‘recovers’…. see link above for paper link.
In addition to the geomagnetic excursions (drops in intensity of a factor 5 to 10) which occur just before the large Heinrich climate change events, like the Younger Dryas…
There are smaller abrupt magnetic field changes, called archeomagnetic jerks. The archeomagnetic magnetic field changes also correlate with climate change events.
The abrupt changes to the geomagnetic strength have continued right up today, which explains why there have been emergency adjustments to global navigation systems in the last decade.
The north geomagnetic pole drift velocity suddenly increased by a factor of ten, from 15 km/year to 55 km/year starting in the 1990s for unexplained reasons…
And in addition the geomagnetic field intensity which was decaying at 5% per century is now decaying at 5%/decade.
What Caused Recent Acceleration of the North Magnetic Pole Drift?
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010EO510001/pdf
The north magnetic pole (NMP) is the point at the Earth’s surface where the geomagnetic field is directed vertically downward. It drifts in time as a result of core convection, which sustains the Earth’s main magnetic field through the geodynamo process. During the 1990s the NMP drift speed suddenly increased from 15 kilometers per year at the start of the decade to 55 kilometers per year by the decade’s end.
This acceleration was all the more surprising given that the NMP drift speed had remained less than 15 kilometers per year over the previous 150 years of observation. Why did NMP drift accelerate in the 1990s?
The sudden change in the Northern magnetic pole drift velocity and the sudden decrease in the strength of the geomagnetic field…
….was one of the reasons the EU space agency found the half billion dollars funding for the ‘Swarm’ satellite system which was developed to monitor the magnetic field.
http://news.yahoo.com/earths-magnetic-field-weakening-10-times-faster-now-121247349.html
“Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now
…Previously, researchers estimated the field was weakening about 5 percent per century, but the new data revealed the field is actually weakening at 5 percent per decade, or 10 times faster than thought. As such, rather than the full flip occurring in about 2,000 years, as was predicted, the new data suggest it could happen sooner.
Floberghagen hopes that more data from Swarm will shed light on why the field is weakening faster now….”
William: Swarm is a set of three satellites that were launched in November, 2013 to study unexplained recent unexplained rapid changes to the geomagnetic field.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1
Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move.
On 15 January, they are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which describes the planet’s magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.
The most recent version of the model came out in 2015 and was supposed to last until 2020 — but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now.
“The error is increasing all the time,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s)
Maybe . Maybe Not. I still beleive Otto Muck over Moderrn Science
Otto Muck? You got me there, Darren P, so I had to look him up. The Destruction of Atlantis and The Transcendental Method. So, Otto Muck is at least on a par with modern science as displayed promoting CAGW. Otto Muck and normal science….not so much. Stay sane and safe.
Why do you say the geomagnetic field reversals are random? Have you ever looked at the paleo geomagnetic record? It is interesting that there was a period of time when the geomagnetic field has unexplainably was reversing with a periodicity of 10,000 years.
Have you looked at the subject of geomagnetic excursions? Geomagnetic reversals have got all the press. Geomagnetic excursions got missed in the excitement. A geomagnetic excursion is an unexplained sudden drop in the intensity of the geomagnetic field intensity of a factor of 5 to 10.
There is evidence of unexplained drops in strength of the geomagnetic field of a factor of 5 to 10. Geomagnetic excursions occur roughly every 30,000 years.
A sudden drop in the geomagnetic field strength of a factor of 5 to 10 is a big deal. What causes geomagnetic excursions? Why do these sudden drops in the geomagnetic field intensity of a factor of 5 to 10, correlate with abrupt climate change?
The unexplained sudden drops in the geomagnetic field intensity of a factor of 5 to 10, correlate with abrupt climate changes such as the Younger Dryas abrupt cooling event…
The Younger Dryas abrupt cooling period, started 12,900 years ago, at a time when solar summer insolation at 65N was maximum.
The planet at 12,900 years ago when from interglacial warm to glacial cold with 70% of the cooling occurring in less than a decade. The planet remained cold for 1200 years, at which time the geomagnetic strengths and the planet warms.
Paleomagnetic excursions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02919335
“Every magnetic excursion event corresponds to paleointensity minima, anteceding those established abrupt paleoclimatic change events, such as the Younger Dryas and the Heinrich Events (H1–H6). Here, we tentatively propose that these geomagnetic excursions/reversals can be viewed as precursors to climate abruptness.
During the transitional stages when the earth’s magnetic field shifted between a temporal normal and a negative period, the earth’s magnetic paleointensity fell correspondingly to a pair of minima. “
By correlating our results with published regional and worldwide reports, 4 excursion events out of 10 apparent reversal signals (labeled from GT-1 to GT-10) were identified as excursion events coeval with the Mono Lake Event (28.4 kyr–25.8 kyr), Laschamp Event (43.3 kyr–40.5 kyr), Gaotai Event (82.8 kyr–72.4 kyr) and the Blake Event (127.4 kyr–113.3 kyr), respectively. GT-9 correlates with the above-mentioned Gaotai Event, GT-7 and GT-6 correspond to two stages of the Laschamp Event and GT-5 to the Mono Lake Event. It is noteworthy that the so-called Gaotai Event has not been reported as a pronounced paleomagnetic excursion in the Northwestern China.
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/416/
Is the geodynamo process intrinsically unstable?
Recent palaeomagnetic studies suggest that excursions of the geomagnetic field, during which the intensity drops suddenly by a factor of 5-10 and the local direction changes dramatically, are more common than previously expected. The `normal’ state of the geomagnetic field, dominated by an axial dipole, seems to be interrupted every 30 to 100 kyr; it may not therefore be as stable as we thought.
Recent studies suggest that the Earth’s magnetic field has fallen dramatically in magnitude and changed direction repeatedly since the last reversal 700 kyr ago (Langereis et al. 1997; Lund et al. 1998). These important results paint a rather different picture of the long-term behaviour of the field from the conventional one of a steady dipole reversing at random intervals: instead, the field appears to spend up to 20 per cent of its time in a weak, non-dipole state (Lund et al. 1998).
Any idea on WUWT
Remember the ‘spaceage high’, looks like it was clearly surpassed, atleast according to Bartols.
compare cosmic rays last minimum to this current minimum.
http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu/~pyle/modplotTH.png
Does Oulu need to update their graph to reflect higher cosmic rays?
now compare to Oulu
It didn’t originate from Earth. This is from another star within the galaxy – a magentar, neutron star etc.
And you know this, how exactly?
Do you mean, Emmanuel Velokoski? The old BS artist?
Galactic magnetic disturbance?
A disturbance in the force, Luke.
fElon Musks new truck backfired a magnetic storm!!
Hundreds of soon-to-be-former DoJ and FBI officials erasing their emails and cell phones.
This is the likeliest of all theories i must admit 🙂
Or something to do with his starlink net being cast over the planet!!!???
This reminds me of that wonderful scene in Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” when Gen. Buck Turgidson gets a phone call in a motel room in which he’s engaged in a sexual dalliance with his secretary, Miss Scott, learns of Gen. Ripper’s use of Wing Attack, Plan R to attack the Soviets, and asks, what’s cooking on the threat board? Nothing? Nothing at all? Of course, in that story, the threat was every bit as real as the threat of CO2 in our atmosphere, a dastardly Commie plot to fluoridate our drinking water and our ice cream, children’s ice cream, Mandrake, in order to sap and corrupt our precious bodily fluids.
So what’s cooking on Jupiter? Has there been a very old, very distant gamma burst somewhere, or a collision between two black holes or pulsars? Or maybe… just maybe… did Bill McKibbon suddenly realize that 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere is better than 350?
Surely that had no effect on the earthquakes a few days ago, right? Right?
What time did the EQ occur?
81 EQs 2.5+ on 6/23, that is noticeably more than average but don’t think it’s an outlier.
It was caused by an a alien sneezing, after he/she/it caught COVID-19, while participating (as an experiment) in a Black-Lives-Matter protest, wearing a face mask that focused the sneeze into pressurized air columns escaping out of the sides of the mask, which then disrupted atmospheric air currents at a micro-scale that chaotically amplified into an upper atmospheric anomaly, producing an extreme momentary electrical difference between Earth and Sun, further producing an accompanying magnetic co-reaction.
This obviously does not happen that frequently.
Yep that’s what did it or could have been the backend of that meteor that came by a few weeks ago it’s ripples just now hit the earth
C’mon this does not take a Nobel in Physics to figure out.
There’s only on fundamental source of energy that could do this.
Chuck Norris
Nikola Tesla just turned over in his grave.
Why isn’t he in his own grave? Is he gay?
I didn’t do it.
He said with only a devious grin . . .
Here’s a list of odd astronomical events occurring since the classic “flying saucer” craze of the late 1940s – 1950s.
Timeline of Odd Astronomical Events
late 1940s – 1960s
“Flying saucer” reports worldwide. “Area 54” incident
1960s – 2000s
abduction reports, airliner UFO reports
14 Feb 2014:
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a small asteroid — about the size of a six-story building — that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013. The blast was stronger than a nuclear explosion, triggering detection from monitoring stations as far away as Antarctica. — Wikipedia
19 October 2017:
Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, 40 days after it passed its closest point to the Sun on 9 September.
Wikipedia
11 October 2018:
A meteor caused a massive explosion over China last year. It is the second-largest recorded impact in the past century, after the meteor that exploded over the Russian region of Chelyabinsk in 2013. The giant fireball hit at 2350 GMT on 18 December over the Bering Sea, a part of the Pacific Ocean between Russia and Alaska.
16 October 2019:
Hubble gives astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our solar system. Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second such interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system.
23 June 2020:
Earth’s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe. There was no solar storm or geomagnetic storm to cause the disturbance.
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but….
It’s going to be the next big scare: aliens are coming, and to stop them we must eliminate fossil fuels and pay more taxes. Because reasons.
Seriously, though, it looks like something similar happened in January of this year:
https://strangesounds.org/2020/01/mysterious-electrical-surge-magnetic-anomaly-ground-norway.html
This HAD to have caused COVID-19.
Oh yeah, I said “seriously”. Well, heck, I guess I blew that attempt.
That one can be explained by a the observed sudden shift in the solar wind environment and its resulting geomagnetic disturbance causing electrons to dump out the Van Allan belts.
It’s Area 51 and Studio 54. They are not quite the same thing.
No, but strange events occurred in both places. Thanks for catching the type. Now if I could just fix it…
Gojira!!
Probably someone doing a classified experiment called radiation belt remediation (RBR) on the Van Allan radiation belts. The recent very quiet state of the geomagnetic environment was the perfect opportunity to test this on the Van Allan Radiation belts.radiation belt remediation (RBR) and know the effects seen are due to the experiment and not solar wind changes.
Also of note, the USAF launch its X-37B space plane back into orbit in May 16th for its OTV6 mission flight. This time it had a “service module” attached for expanded capability to carry more experiment to orbit.
According to the USSF/USAF Press release on OTV6, “This will be the first X-37B mission to use a service module to host experiments. The incorporation of a service module on this mission enables us to continue to expand the capabilities of the spacecraft and host more experiments than any of the previous missions.”
Read more here: https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2177702/next-x-37b-orbital-test-vehicle-scheduled-to-launch
On the DSX mission launched to orbit last year on a Falcon Heavy rocket:
“The spacecraft is equipped with a unique suite of technologies such as space weather sensors and graphite antenna booms used to conduct experiments with very-low frequency radio waves. ”
…
“DSX will conduct on-orbit experiments for at least a year, to include:
A set of experiments, called the Wave Particle Interaction Experiments, will investigate the influence of Very Low Frequency radio waves on energetic particle behavior within the MEO environment.
The Space Weather Experiments will measure and map the distribution of energetic particles and plasma in MEO to improve environment models for spacecraft design and operations.”
read more here:
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1886564/air-force-research-laboratory-prepares-dsx-spacecraft-for-launch/
More technical stuff on the DSX platform-vehicle design and all its components.
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/d/dsx
Figure 9 in the above doc gives a hint of what might have been the cause of the 23 June anomaly.
Looking at waveform of magnetic field vector, we can see 4 ELF transmissions, each about 3 minutes long, 10 minutes between transmission.
1: xmit on 0624 UTC, off 0627 UTC.
2.: xmit on 0634 UTC, off 0637 UTC.
3: xmit on 0644 UTC, off 0647 UTC.
4: xmit on 0654 UTC, off 0657 UTC.
~ 30 minutes.
And from the CONOPS of DSX-WPIx (Wave Particle Interaction Experiment):
“High power VLF transmission is limited to ±20º latitude about the equatorial plane and to less than 30 minutes. ”
Some tech savvy person tracking the DSX ephemeris data could easily check to see if the DSX sv was transiting the equatorial plane around the Prime Meridian around 0644 UTC on June 23, 2020.
You can track DSX live here:
https://www.n2yo.com/?s=44344&live=1
But I can’t find an easy way to see where it was on June 23 at 0645 UTC.
Joel, there is a lot of misinformation about the Navy VLF program. When the navy wanted to communicate with submerged submarines, they hired RCA which did a lot of communication work for the Navy. My father was their top field engineer for what was at the time Project Sanguine. The antenna towers mentioned above were not built to transmit through the air but rather through the earth. That called for high conductivity areas, northern Wi. and MI. The power requirements were enormous requiring waist high, water cooled tubes. There were protests and some damage by a bunch of people that feared VLF. A Navy study found no problems. My father’s observations were that the trees loved it , worms not so much. Moving VLF through the earth is a very slow process. It could take 20 minutes or more to get enough code passed, so a sub could then surface and use conventional communication. The sub had to trail a very very long wire to use as an antenna. My father also got the chance to dive with Jacques Cousteau off the coast of California. I believe the cover story was they wanted to listen to the heartbeat of the earth. Congress did not fund the project until many years later when it became known as Project Elf. I believe that it was used during the first Gulf War. From memory, Raytheon replaced it with a better system.. There is some information about Project Elf on the internet. It was highly classified at the time so I don’t know the status at this time. I can say that there is a location that is never mentioned. My father never discussed the project but being my fathers son I had most it figured out at a very young age. The dive with Cousteau was a tip off as the cover story said that a bunch if scientists wanted to listen to the “heart beat of the earth”. One summer in the a far northern part on Wi. I was checking a 2.5 mile pair of twisted pair wires used as a receiving antenna for porcupine damage, a wolf was crossing a fire break. We were only about 30 feet from each other. We just looked art each other before the wolf did not sense danger and just walked away. I have had quite a childhood.
Thankyou for the education you know your fields
Joel – fascinating posts mate. Thank you.
Paging David S Goyer..
Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in …
We do, after all, live in an Electric Universe.
I am shocked that you would think that.
Me too. Are you sure that information is current?
What’s with this resistance?
Well, at least somebody gets it.
“Lately, Earth’s magnetic field has been quiet. Very quiet.”
A little…too quiet…
Here it comes. A great big new tax on magnetic fields.
So, make sure your fields are non-magnetic.
Just to fill out the list of bogus reasons, I invoke Godwin’s law.
Alien supralight drive upon departure from the solar system, having found no intelligent life worth talking to. Told them not to go to Disney.
It’s Trumps fault.
Yep, never would have happened if he hadn’t pulled us out of the Paris Climate Treaty.
It’s CO2’s fault. It causes every other weather phenomenon, why not solar as well?
Very interesting. Maybe the Earth’s solid nickel/iron core ‘slipped’ a hair, which is driving the acceleration of the wandering magnetic poles. All pure conjuncture, but solar maximums and minimums do have a significant effect on our local magnetosphere, which must have some bearing on the nickel iron core which produces the the local magnetic field from the rotation of the good Earth. We don’t even fully understand how all this interacts with short term weather or long term climate, most everyone now believing that CO2 is the principal driver responsible for everything. Will be interesting to see what unfolds the next year with any measurable result of the magnetic pole speeding up, slowing down or changing direction, if it isn’t HAARP related.
It would be hard to think that could produce any significant detectable result of any kind, considering it only is powered by 3.6 megawatts of power. HAARP is the most powerful ionospheric heater in the world, but could a measly 3,600 kW generate that type of a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe? I don’t know…but it sure would feed the conspiracy theory’s. China better behave, or we will turn the beam on them. Let’s go with that explanation.
Solar Breeze makes me feel fine… Cool and informative as always! TYVM
Normally lost in solar clutter… So, we have little idea of how normal these events are.
But it is Chuck.
Chas: Look, we’ve got reams of data over 30 minutes, the science is settled- human caused magnetic alteration (AMA) will destroy us, better shut down economy and hand what’s left to our progressive betters.