Mount Everest shifted 3 centimeters by Nepal earthquake

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Mount Everest shifted 3 centimeters by Nepal earthquake
Jun 16, 2015
by Deborah Byrd in Blogs » Earth, Science Wire

Geologists in China announced this week that the deadly magnitude-7.9 earthquake in Nepal on April 25 moved Mount Everest by 3 centimeters to the southwest. The quake – one of two large earthquakes to occur in Nepal this spring – left more than 8,700 people dead. China Daily reported on the findings of these geologists earlier today. China’s National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation published the geologists’ report on Monday (June 15, 2015).

Located on the border between China and Nepal, Mount Everest – highest mountain on Earth at 29,029 feet (8,848 meters) above sea level – is located where two of Earth’s great land plates, the Eurasian and Indian plates, meet. Thus the mountain is always moving, but large earthquakes can move it more suddenly. According to China Daily, the geologists’ report said that, during the past decade, the mountain moved nearly 16 inches (40 cm) to the northeast at a speed of 1.6 inches (4 cm) a year. The mountain rose about an inch (3 cm) at a speed of 0.1 inches (0.3 cm) a year.

The second quake in Nepal on May 12 – which measured magnitude 7.5 – didn’t move Mount Everest either horizontally or vertically, these geologists said.

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