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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2022
8.1-magnitude earthquake shakes New Zealand

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TBS Report 
05 March, 2021, 09:10 am
Last modified: 05 March, 2021, 09:20 am

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8.1-magnitude earthquake shakes New Zealand

Bangladesh cricket team were reported safe

TBS Report 
05 March, 2021, 09:10 am
Last modified: 05 March, 2021, 09:20 am
Traffic slowly works up to high ground at Whangarei, New Zealand, as a tsunami warning is issued Friday. Photo: Collected
Traffic slowly works up to high ground at Whangarei, New Zealand, as a tsunami warning is issued Friday. Photo: Collected

Tens of thousands of coastal residents in New Zealand, New Caledonia and Vanuatu fled for higher ground Friday as a cluster of powerful earthquakes sparked a Pacific-wide tsunami alert.

communities along stretches of the North Island were warned to flee as tsunami alert sirens wailed after an 8.1-magnitude quake, which followed earlier tremors in the same region measuring 7.4 and 7.3.

Warning sirens sounded across Noumea as authorities ordered evacuations amid fears that waves of up three metres were headed towards the French territory, reports NDTV. 

"People must leave beach areas and stop all water activities, and should not pick their children up at schools to avoid creating traffic jams," emergency services spokesman Alexandre Rosignol told public radio.

Bangladesh cricketers, who are currently in New Zealand for their upcoming three ODIs and three T20Is, were unscathed by the quakes, reports Somoy News. 

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said, "People near the coast... must move immediately to the nearest high ground, out of all tsunami evacuation zones, or as far inland as possible."

The largest of the quakes struck around 1,000 kilometres (640 miles) off the New Zealand coast at 8:28 am (1928 Thursday GMT), the US Geological Survey said.

No damage or injuries were reported from the earlier quakes, both of which generated tsunami warnings that were later lifted.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand was among those given an early morning wake-up.

"Hope everyone is ok out there -- especially on the East Coast who would have felt the full force of that earthquake," she posted on Instagram after the inital shake at 2:27 am.

It was preceded by two seismic jolts that were also enormously powerful, in an unusually strong cluster even for the Pacific ring of fire, where the Earth's tectonic plates collide.

New Zealand's NEMA said the remoteness of the quakes did not minimise their potential impact.

The South Pacific nation recently marked the 10th anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake, when a 6.3 tremor resulted in 185 deaths in the South Island city.

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