The 14,505 elevation is the National Geodetic Survey's official Mt. Whitney elevation, established in 1994.

Granted, the elevation jumped then by over 5 feet, but not by any earthquake movement. As I wrote above, it was due to readjustment of the zero elevation.

Here's the NGS datasheet on the Mt. Whitney elevation:
    14505 -- Datasheet GT1811
    14508 -- Datasheet GT1810

And here are some others on the summit -- likely a datasheet for each of those brass survey medallions you can see on the summit:
    14499.2 -- Datasheet GT0238
    14499.6 -- Datasheet GT0239
    14499.6 -- Datasheet GT1808, "MT WHITNEY SMITHSONIAN HOUSE"

CaT wrote:
> Unless it got deleted, there was a sizeable thread on the WPSMB about this, probably within the last year or two.
I don't remember that, CaT. Any chance anyone can find it?