Mount Everest shifted 3 centimeters after Nepal quake - but height remained same

Mount Everest is captured in this photograph taken from the village of Tembuche, in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal, five days before the April 25 quake.

Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, was moved three centimeters southwest by the 7.8-magnitude 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 mountain, according to the report by China's National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation.

In the decade since, Everest had been moving northeast at a speed of four centimeters a year, and had grown by 0.3 centimeter 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.

Source: CNN news