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New Zealand Civil Defence says no tsunami threat from Kermadec Islands earthquake
There is no tsunami threat to New Zealand after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the Pacific.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and GNS Science assessed the quake near the Kermadec Islands was unlikely to have caused a tsunami that would have posed a threat to New Zealand.
The earthquake struck at 12:42pm NZT, in the same vicinity as the magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck on March 4, 2021, and prompted tsunami evacuations for large parts of the North Island.
NEMA said it was assessing whether the quake could affect New Zealand but gave its standard advice for people to move away from coastal areas if they felt a long or strong quake.
(New Zealand Herald)