Mount Everest shifted 3 cm
The highest peak has been shifted by the powerful Nepal earthquake. This quake killed more than 8,700 people, and has a whooping magnitude of 7.8. The quake caused an avalanche that killed 18 people and damaged its climbing base camp. Authorities in both countries has canceled climbs that have been planned for the year. Nepal was hit by two earthquakes. More than half of a million homes were destroyed. “made it bounce a little bit in the opposite direction,” Xu Xiwei, deputy head of the Institute of Geology at the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing, told China Daily . “
The scale of such movement is normal and won’t affect life in the area.” By measuring the movement, scientists can learn more about the principles of Earth releasing energy, and measure the scale of the energy being released,” Xu said. “Such measurement helps us to locate the source of the tectonic movement and observe when abnormal movement occurs.”
