Mount Everest is standing proud and tall, but 2.8 centimeters smaller than it used to be.
Nepal’s capital Kathmandu was lifted 1 meter after the deadly earthquake last month.
This is according to Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite, which passed over the affected area on Wednesday, a day after the 7.8-magnitude quake.
The lowering is explained by a relief of strain in the Earthโs crust, it said citing UNAVCO, a nonprofit geoscience research consortium.
The satellite data is still raw and will be analyzed by teams of scientists over the next few weeks.