{"id":267918,"date":"2016-11-13T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267918"},"modified":"2016-11-13T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T14:57:30","slug":"tsunami-hits-new-zealand-after-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267918","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami hits New Zealand after quake"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tsunami has hit after an earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island.<\/p>\n

The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.8 quake hit just after midnight (11:02 GMT on Sunday), some 95km (59 miles) from Christchurch.<\/p>\n

The tsunami arrived in the north-eastern coast about two hours later. Officials said the first waves may not be the largest, with tsunami activity possible for several hours.<\/p>\n

Residents were warned to head inland or for higher ground along the coast.<\/p>\n

A gauge at Kaikoura, 181 km (112 miles) north of Christchurch, measured a wave of 2.5m (8ft 2ins), according to Weatherwatch.co.nz.<\/p>\n

Smaller waves are said to be arriving in Wellington and other areas, the website said.<\/p>\n

But the ministry of civil defence has said the highest waves, which could be as tall as 5m are expected between Malborough, the north-eastern tip of the South Island, and Banks Peninsula, just south of Christchurch.<\/p>\n

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Residents in the Chatham Islands, an archipelago 423 miles (680km) south-east of the mainland, were also being warned a wave would hit imminently by the civil defence.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people have already evacuated their homes as aftershocks continue to hit the area, Radio New Zealand reported.<\/p>\n

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Others have taken to social media to offer people a safe bed for the night.<\/p>\n

New Zealand lies on the notorious Ring of Fire, the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim.<\/p>\n

Christchurch is still recovering from the 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people and destroyed the city centre.<\/p>\n

The Herald newspaper said the tremor was felt all the way to Wellington, where sirens sounded and people fled buildings into the streets, some of them crying.<\/p>\n

Early reports suggested some houses in Cheviot town, near the epicentre, have been damaged.<\/p>\n

But Chris Hill, a fire officer in Cheviot, said officials had gone door to door evacuating residents and found “everyone seems okay”.<\/p>\n

He told RadioNZ: “There’s a lot of debris in houses, but at this stage it doesn’t look like anything too bad has happened.”<\/p>\n

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New Zealand’s GeoNet suggests the earthquake may have been only a magnitude-5.5 tremor.<\/p>\n

A resident of Christchurch said the tremor lasted a “long” time.<\/p>\n

“We were asleep and woken to the house shaking, it kept going and going and felt like it was going to build up,” she told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

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On Twitter, Hayley Colgan described it as “the the most terrifying earthquake I think I’ve felt in my 23 years in New Zealand”.<\/p>\n

A magnitude-7.1 quake struck 169km (105 miles) north-east of Gisborne on the North Island in September, sparking a tsunami warning. It caused some damage to property, but no injuries.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tsunami has hit after an earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.8 quake hit just after midnight (11:02 GMT on Sunday), some 95km (59 miles) from Christchurch. The tsunami arrived in the north-eastern coast about two hours later. Officials said the first waves may not be the largest, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":267922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[10948,3,13586,13587],"class_list":["post-267918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-earthquake","tag-ghana-news","tag-new-zealand-earthquake","tag-tsunami-quake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}