if you are refering to the magnetic pole .. it occurs always... the magnetic north pole for example from northern canada towards siberia...
however it takes some more time then just a couple of years. however one can measure a yearly difference of it s position .
2007-03-07 21:54:52
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answered by solarsystemsurfer2005 2
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There is a theory that the earth's poles shift dramaticly every few 100,000 yrs or so. The thought is that weight on the poles combined with gravity cause the hard outer crust to rotate on the liquid core. This is why deserts were once forest and vice versa. Some think this is why we find wooly mamoths frozen with food still in their stomachs, and that a civilization could lie frozen under the artic ice (left over from a city that was once on the equator).
IF this shift does occur it will soon. It should only take hours or days to complete, and the equater could easily become the new poles...
2007-03-07 22:24:08
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answered by D4gotten1 3
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I doubt it would occur but it has been proven that at one time the poles were the other ways round.
Fossilized rocks have been found with the metallic compounds pointing south, often igneous rock, as it has come up from the earths core in layers. Like layers in a cake, in the top layer the metallic compounds (and/or elements) were pointing north, in the second layer they were pointing south.
(For D4gotten1)
2007-03-10 09:04:57
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answered by Lifeless Energy 5
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