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Tsunami hits N. Zealand after powerful

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Published time: 13 Nov, 2016 11:20Edited time: 13 Nov, 2016 14:22
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New Zealand authorities have issued a tsunami warning, urging people along the entire east coast
to move inland or to high ground, after a powerful earthquake hit northeast of Christchurch, the
biggest city on South Island.
The tremor, with a magnitude initially estimated at 7.4 before being scaled up to 7.8, had a depth
of 23km, according to the US Geological Survey.
It was centered 46km from the town of Amberley with about 2,000 people, 70km from the town
of Kaiapoi with 10,000 residents and 91km north-northeast of Christchurch.
NZ Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management (MCDEM) issued a tsunami warning
for the eastern coasts of North and South Islands.
WeatherWatch.co.nz reports that a sizeable tsunami wave of around 2 meters has been
recorded in Kaikoura.
Now much smaller, but still very dangerous, tsunami waves are showing up in [the cities of]
Wellington, Castlepoint, the website added.
A surge of up to one meter was recorded in North Canterbury region of the South Island, Anna
Kaiser, a seismologist at GNS Science told Radio New Zealand.
"That's reasonably significant so people should take this seriously," she added.
Chris Hill from Cheviot, which is located along the coast, said officials went door to door
evacuating residents.
Everyone seems OK here, he told RNZ. There's a lot of debris in houses, but at this stage it
doesn't look like anything too bad has happened.
At least ten aftershocks with magnitudes from 4.9 to 6.2 have struck South Island of New
Zealand, USGS reports while The NZ Herald reports more than 45 tremors.
The tremor has been officially rated severe, the New Zealand Herald reported, adding that
sirens could be heard in the capital of Wellington.
There are reports that houses in the town of Cheviot have been badly damaged.
I hope everyone is safe after the earthquake tonight. [New Zealand] Civil Defense is looking
into the impact of the quake, John Key, NZ Prime Minister wrote on Twitter.
In Wellington, 214km from the quake's epicenter, some windows and chimneys were smashed
and the power was knocked out in several places, AP reported.

According to Wayne Timmo, a resident of the town of Hamilton, the quake felt like a long slow,
rolling or almost rotating motion.
The water in the neighbor's swimming pool was left sloshing around for about a minute and
people woken by the quake came out onto the street to talk about it, he told Stuff.co.nz news
website.
It really shook for a long time, Jo Davis from the town of Nelson also told the news outlet.
The quake damaged power lines in several neighborhoods and power may not be restored until
morning.
Back in 2011, Christchurch was struck by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 185
people and injured hundreds.
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