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China Says That the Earthquake in Nepal Moved Mount Everest Three Centimeters

April's 7.8-magnitude earthquake was apparently strong enough to move mountains.

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The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that ravaged Nepal last April was apparently strong enough to move mountains, CNN reports. On Monday, China's Administration of Surveying, Mapping, and Geoinformation announced that the devastating earthquake lifted up and shifted Mount Everest three centimeters southwest.

Everest, the world's tallest mountain and frozen wasteland of poop, has been slowly sliding northeast at a rate of four centimeters a year since China started observing it a decade ago, but the massive earthquake was enough to push the 30,000-foot mountain back to where it was nine months ago.

The April 25 earthquake also triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, leaving at least 17 people dead and injuring 61.

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