The new model forecasts a steady drift towards Russia at roughly 30 miles annually, which will undoubtedly cause some navigational trouble.

“The ongoing changes are causing major problems for aviation, navigation and migratory animals that use the Earth’s magnetic field to orient themselves. Some airports have even changed the names of their runways to better correspond to their current direction relative to magnetic north,” MNN reports. But since we’re pretty new to all of this, we don’t know exactly how serious this will be, especially for migratory creatures like birds and turtles. Whether or not they’ll be able to recalibrate more effectively than a Garmin remains to be seen.

The good news is that for us groundlings, it’s not as much of a concern. Our smartphones and GPS devices will be golden.

We’re long overdue for a complete pole reversal — they typically happen every 400,000 years, and it’s been 780,000 since Earth has last experienced one. But you don’t need to worry, it’s not an overnight affair, and while it’ll be a bigger deal than Y2K, humanity can handle it. “Reversals typically take about 10,000 years to happen,” said Jeffrey Love of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Keep your fingers crossed and pointed to true north.