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Nepal quake moves Tibetan town up to 60 cm

(People's Daily Online)    08:52, May 22, 2015
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Photo taken on May 12, 2015 shows the Nepalese side of the China-Nepal border area after a 7.5-magnitude quake, in Gyirong Township, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. One woman was killed and two other people were injured in Tibet after China's neighbor Nepal was jolted by another earthquake on Tuesday afternoon. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

The devastating earthquake on April 25 in Nepal caused one town and one county in Tibet to move 60 centimeters or so to the right, according to the latest observations released by the Wuhan-based China Earthquake Administration.

After the magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck the country, four observation groups were sent to 2,000 locations, within 300 kilometers from the epicenter, to conduct emergency monitoring, an official from the earthquake research institute told Chutian Metropolis Daily on Monday.

The observation team found that the quake had shifted the ground beneath Gyirong Town and Nyalam County in Xigaze City, Southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region about 60 centimeters southward. It also caused Nyalam County to sink some 10 centimeters.

It is understood that the linear distance between the epicenter of the Nepal quake and the border of China is about 50 kilometers. Strong tremors could be felt in Gyirong Town and Nyalam County. The earthquake has moved Kathmandu 3 meters southward and sunk Mount Qomolangma by 2.5 centimeters, earlier reports said.

This article was edited and translated from 《西藏两县镇因地震向尼泊尔方向移动60厘米》, source: Chutian Metropolis Daily 


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