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Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak, was moved about 3 centimetres (1 inch) southwest by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated Nepal in April, Chinese authorities say
This side-by-side comparison shows Mount Everest before and after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on 25 April.
Image via NASA Earth Observatory/LIVE Science
The Chinese administration had set a satellite monitoring system on the peak in 2005 to observe the movement of the mountain.
In the decade since, Mt. Everest has moved 40cm to the northeast at a speed of 4cm a year, and risen 3cm over the same period.
Basically, the earthquake reversed the direction of the mountain, shifting it to roughly where it would have been 9 months earlier
A view of Mount Everest towering over the Nupse, from the village of Tembuche in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal on 20 April 2015.
Image via Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty Images
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