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India plans to measure Everest after quake in Nepal
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- 25 January, 2017
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Baku. 25 January. REPORT.AZ/ Indian government has said it plans to measure the height of Mount Everest for a second time to assess whether it changed as a result of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Report informs citing the BBC, Surveyor-General Swarna Subba Rao said an expedition would be sent to the world's highest mountain in two months.
Some scientists believe that Mount Everest shrank as a result of the 2015 Nepal earthquake
The most widely recognised height, 8,848m, came from an Indian survey 62 years ago.
Scientists have said that the height of a swathe of the Himalayas dropped by around one metre shortly after the 7.8 magnitude Nepal earthquake.
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