A township and county in China’s south eastern Tibet autonomous region have moved a little southward following the April 25 powerful earthquake in Nepal, Chinese experts said on Tuesday.
Gyirong county and Nyalam town were moved approximately 60 centimetres horizontally south by the devastating quake, according to researchers from China University of Geosciences and China Earthquake Administration (CEA).
In addition, Nyalam vertically dropped approximately 10 centimetres, while Gyirong showed no significant vertical movement, official English-language website of China News Service Ecns.cn reported.
After the earthquake struck Nepal, four Chinese research teams were immediately dispatched into wild terrain to undertake emergency monitoring.
They observed 2,000 spots within 300 kilometres of the epicentre, said Huang Yong from the CEA.
The Nepalese earthquake epicentre was approximately 50 kilometres from the China border.
The massive quake on April 25 resulted in the movement of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
The quake had a strong presence in Shigatse. It is reported that the earthquake moved Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, approximately three meters south and dropped Mount Everest by approximately 2.5 centimetres.
