{"id":570,"date":"2015-06-17T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=570"},"modified":"2015-06-19T01:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T01:49:18","slug":"mount-everest-shifts-three-centimetres-south-west-due-to-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest shifts three centimetres south-west due to earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-571\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The world&#8217;s tallest peak has moved three centimetres to the south-west due to the Nepal earthquake that devastated the country in April.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media reported the physical shift citing the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The 7.8-magnitude quake allegedly reversed the gradual north-easterly course of the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Before the quake, Everest had moved 40 centimetres to the north-east over the past decade at a speed of four centimetres a year, and rose three centimetres over the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake caused an avalanche on the mountain, killing 18 people and leaving its climbing base camp in ruins.<\/p>\n<p>The event prompted authorities in both China and Nepal to cancel all climbs for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Everest straddles the border between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s tallest peak has moved three centimetres to the south-west due to the Nepal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[9,29,10,23,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0.jpg",420,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}