Earth's Magnetic Field: Vertical Direction

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Does the vertical component of the Earth's magnetic field always point downward?
 

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Hi.

There is horizontal and no vertical component on equator.

Thinking of two points of the same latitude but on opposite sides the equator, the vertical components are upward at one and downward at the other when we keep the same horizontal direction in definition of upward and downward.

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