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
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