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After a natural cataclysm, according to UNAVCO scientists, the most the highest and most beloved mountain climbers in the world has become somewhat below. Not much, just a centimeter for two, two and a half (about an inch), but still decreased.
Of course, nobody measured Everest using a ruler, however satellite Sentinel-1A ESA (European Space Agency), passing over the mountain on April 29, recorded just such a decrease in the height of the famous mountain. It happened by the reason for the displacement of the tectonic plates of Eurasia and India, which caused an earthquake, and as a result – subsidence of the mountain.
Professor, Joint Institute for Research and Protection environment R. Bilham believes that Everest declined much smaller, maybe just a few millimeters, but the Annapurna massif located here in the Himalayas has grown about twenty centimeters is already big change.
Recall a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.9 points and the epicenter eighty kilometers from the capital Kathmadu began in Nepal April 25th. Tremors, by the way, continue to this day. since The number of earthquake victims has already exceeded seven thousand people injured approximately twice as much. It has become the strongest natural disaster in the country over the past hundred years.
For lovers of mountain tourism, the authorities of Nepal are planning open for climbers Everest as early as next week.
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