DHAKA: The Indian government has announced it will measure the height of Mount Everest for the second time to assess whether it changed as a result of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Surveyor-General Swarna Subba Rao said an expedition would be sent to the world's highest mountain in two months.

Satellite data has indicated the quake impact reduced the height of the peak, reports the BBC.

The most widely recognized height, 8,848m (29,028ft), came from an Indian survey 62 years ago.

Scientists have said that the height of a swathe of the Himalayas dropped by around one meter shortly after the 7.8 magnitude Nepal earthquake.

They added at the time that a ground survey and GPS or an airborne mission would be needed to determine whether the world’s highest peak had seen a change in its height by a few centimeters.

Rao told the Press Trust of India news agency that the team would take about a month to make its observations and another 15 days to compute and declare its data.

BDST: 2037 HRS, JAN 24, 2016
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