NASA Is Watching a Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field

[metalman]

From the article, what they are calling an anomaly may be an ancient and mostly fixed area of the earths magnetic field that is 3 times weaker than the highest strength areas.And its mostly over the south atlantic, so not of concern to humans, but it is damaging to satelites in LEO.

[sylware]

How many more DNA damaging high energy particules are getting in our bodies while living day to day into this "anomaly"? Significant?

[EA-3167]

Essentially none, we leave under a thick atmosphere that does most of the heavy lifting in that regard, this is more of an issue for satellites.