A National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) spokesperson told NZME there was no tsunami threat to New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Region\u2019s second huge quake in six weeks<\/p>\n
In July, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, triggering tsunamis up to 4m high across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii to Japan.<\/p>\n
The magnitude 8.8 quake was the largest since 2011, when a magnitude 9.1 tremor off Japan caused a tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people.<\/p>\n
July\u2019s quake prompted authorities in Japan to order almost two million people to head to higher ground.<\/p>\n
Tsunami warnings were also issued across the region, before being rescinded or downgraded.<\/p>\n
Buildings were damaged in the July 30 quake and several people were injured in Russia\u2019s Kamchatka region.<\/p>\n
A volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula erupted days after the earthquake for the first time in hundreds of years, sending ash 6km into the sky.<\/p>\n
July quake sparks warnings in NZ<\/p>\n
New Zealanders were warned by Nema to expect strong sea currents along coastlines after the July 30 earthquake.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople in or near the sea in affected NZ areas should move out of the water, off beaches and shore areas and away from harbours, marinas, rivers and estuaries,\u201d Nema said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrong currents and surges can injure and drown people. There is a danger to swimmers, surfers, people fishing and anyone in or near the water close to shore.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople on boats, live-aboards and at marinas should leave their boats\/vessels and move on to shore. Do not return to boats unless instructed by officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, because of New Zealand\u2019s distance from the epicentre, the country was in a good position regarding a tsunami threat.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we\u2019re so far away, we have time because tsunami waves travel relatively slowly through the deep oceans,\u201d University of Auckland\u2019s School of Environment senior lecturer Dr Jennifer Eccles said after the July 30 tremor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in that position where we have time to know what to expect and because of the distance it has to travel, the energy will dissipate somewhat.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time it gets here, it\u2019s going to be much smaller than anything they will see at a local level.\u201d<\/p>\n
More to come<\/p>\n
\u2013 Agence France-Presse, additional copy NZ Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) spokesperson told NZME there was no tsunami threat to New Zealand. Region\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20700,20704,20703,11586,6752,3806,528,20707,20706,20699,111,43,139,69,6662,8206,20701,1534,312,9939,19063,20705,8822,20702,9938,20708,1455],"class_list":["post-19403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-20700","tag-74magnitude","tag-cancelled","tag-coast","tag-earthquake","tag-east","tag-far","tag-geological","tag-kamchatka","tag-magnitude","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-quake","tag-russias","tag-saturday","tag-says","tag-states","tag-strikes","tag-struck","tag-survey","tag-tsunami","tag-united","tag-usgs","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}