Kilauea’s magnetic field goes OPPOSITE direction – sending compasses crazy
MOUNT Kilauea, Hawaii’s erupting volcano, has a magnetic field which flows in the OPPOSITE direction to the rest of the planet, scientists have discovered.
By Paul Baldwin
PUBLISHED: 12:33, Sat, Jun 2, 2018 | UPDATED: 16:35, Sat, Jun 2, 2018... According to geologists the molten rock below the Mount Kilauea caldera contains vast amounts of iron and is effectively a sea of floating magnets.
About 780,000 years ago the rock cooled and simultaneously the Earth’s magnetic field inexplicably FLIPPED – the South Pole became the North and the North Pole became the South. ...
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