Mt Everest shifts 3cm due to Nepal quake
June 16 2015
Mt Everest moved 3cm as a result of April's devastating earthquake.
The world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, moved three centimetres to the southwest because of the Nepal earthquake that devastated the country in April.
According to a report in the state-run China Daily, citing the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, the 7.8-magnitude quake reversed the gradual northeasterly course of the mountain.
The report said before the quake, Everest had moved 40cm to the northeast over the past decade at a rate of four centimetres a year.
Two earthquakes, on April 25 and May 12, killed more than 8700 people in Nepal, triggered landslides and destroyed half a million homes, leaving thousands without shelter just weeks ahead of monsoon rains.
--
__._,_.___
No comments:
Post a Comment