Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, was moved 3
centimeters (about 1.2 inches) southwest by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that
devastated Nepal in April, Chinese authorities say.
But the April 25 quake, which left more than 8,000 people
dead, did not affect the height of the 8,848-meter (29,029-foot) mountain,
according to the report by China's National Administration of Surveying,
Mapping and Geoinformation.
Chinese state media reported the
administration had set a satellite monitoring system on the peak in 2005 to
observe the movement of the mountain.
In the decade since, Everest had been moving northeast at
a speed of 4 centimeters a year, and had grown by 0.3 centimeters annually,
state media reported.
The April earthquake reversed the direction of the
mountain, shifting it to roughly where it would have been nine months earlier.
Culled from CNN
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