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What does it take to move mountains? 'Cos Everest just shifted.
22nd June 2015
Recently released satellite imagery has revealed the earthquake that struck Nepal in April had the power to move mountains. Not just any mountains, but the world's tallest - Mt Everest - slid south-west by 4cm and dropped 2.5cm. All as a result of deformation (crumpling) of the earth's crust as the massive forces of two colliding continental plates caused 100 years-worth of tension to be released. And while the world's highest mountain was losing some of its height, elsewhere, the plateau on which Kathmandu stands was heaved upwards by a massive 100cm.
Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.