We know that the Earth’s oceans and landforms can be affected by natural processes in constructive and destructive ways. Last week (April 25th) a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal. This was one of the most powerful disasters to strike Nepal in since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake.
To detect the changes in the earth and determine the damages, scientists have been looking at before-and-after radar images from satellites. So far, they have discovered that a region 75 miles long by 30 miles wide lifted upward as much as 3 ft during the earthquake. At the same time Mount Everest dropped about 1 inch because the Earth’s crust relaxed in some areas after the earthquake released.
Read more here.
To detect the changes in the earth and determine the damages, scientists have been looking at before-and-after radar images from satellites. So far, they have discovered that a region 75 miles long by 30 miles wide lifted upward as much as 3 ft during the earthquake. At the same time Mount Everest dropped about 1 inch because the Earth’s crust relaxed in some areas after the earthquake released.
Read more here.
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