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The first area affected was the Chatham Islands, where the tsunami struck at about 1 am (New Zealand time) on 15 August. News of the effect on the Chathams did not reach the mainland until 27 August, when the schooner Rifleman reached Port Chalmers. The Māori village of Tupuangi was totally destroyed, with only sand and seaweed marking its ...
A tsunami warning was issued for large stretches of New Zealand’s northeast coastline on March 5 after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake – the third in the country that morning – struck the ...
On 18 December, a Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Royal New Zealand Air Force carrying an urban search and rescue team to Vanuatu was diverted to Nouméa in New Caledonia due to an engine fire warning. [56] China also sent 35 tons of humanitarian aid. [57] On 20 December 2024, over seven tonnes of aid were delivered by New Zealand. [58]
New Zealand is located in a region prone to seismic activity. The third and strongest of Friday's quakes registered at a magnitude of 8.1 while the others registered above a 7.
The 2009 Dusky Sound earthquake was a M w 7.8 earthquake that struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, on 15 July at 21:22 local time (09:22 UTC). It had an initially–reported depth of 12 km (7.5 mi), and an epicentre near Dusky Sound in Fiordland National Park, which is 160 km (99 mi) north-west of Invercargill.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand, just one day after a devastating cyclone forced a state of emergency across much of the country.. The quake occurred under the Cook Strait ...
GeoNet is a natural hazards monitoring system in New Zealand that monitors earthquakes, large landslides, volcanoes, tsunami, and movement of land.Earthquakes and other natural hazards are automatically listed on the GeoNet website and app, and app users are given notifications to be warned about natural hazards.
New Zealand Estimated $13,000,000,000 From Sunday 12 February to Wednesday 15 February, Cyclone Gabrielle struck the North Island, resulting in significant damage and flooding, and a national state of emergency being declared, the third time in the nation's history.