Tsunami warning raised for New Zealand

After three strong earthquakes, people are allowed to go home.

After three strong earthquakes off the coast of New Zealand, the authorities raised the tsunami warning. On Friday, the Civil Protection Agency said the threat had passed. And it warned of the possibility of waves up to three meters above the water level after the earthquake. Tsunami waves struck the smallest North Island. Initially, however, there were no reports of casualties or damages.

The ground shook three times within eight hours, and the strength ranged from 7.2 to 8.1. The USGS seismic station has announced the third and most intense earthquake near the Kermadec Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The second earthquake also occurred near this largely uninhabited group of islands 800 km northeast of the North Island, with a magnitude of 7.4. Before that, there was the first earthquake east of the North Island. Residents near the coast in several sections of the east coast of the main North Island have been called in via Twitter to instantly jump into the higher terrain. “Don’t stay home,” the agency wrote. The coastal areas from Bay of Islands to Wangari and from Matata to Tulaga Bay are threatened.

Earthquake plus epidemic: the country “suffers from misfortune”

“It is hard not to feel that our country is unlucky when it is hit by an earthquake in one day, one Tsunami “She has to deal with a pandemic,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

New Zealand is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which surrounds the Pacific U-shaped on three sides. Earthquakes are common along the ring as the Australian and Pacific plates collide and displace. There are also many volcanoes on the Ring of Fire.

(What / editor)