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Huge = earthquake=20 rocks New Zealand

Calcutta=20 News.Net
Sunday 30th September, 2007

A major earthquake = measuring 7.6 on=20 the Richter scale has hit an area southwest of New=20 Zealand.

Residents across the South Island of New = Zealand=20 felt the effects of the huge quake centered 350 kilometres = off the=20 coast near the remote Auckland Islands.

The country = switched=20 to daylight saving on Sunday so the quake was registered as = having=20 taken place at 5:23pm local time.

Meteorological = authorities=20 issued a tsunami alert for the Australian eastern states but = this=20 was later withdrawn except for the island state of=20 Tasmania.

There were no reports of casualties or = damage.=20

The NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a = statement=20 ruling out any destructive tsunami threat. 'However = earthquakes of=20 this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be = destructive=20 along coasts located within a hundred kilometres of the = earthquake=20 epicenter,' the statement said.

'Authorities in the = region of=20 the epicenter should be aware of this possibility and take=20 appropriate action,' the statement concluded.

The = Auckland=20 Islands, the region closest to the epicenter, are = uninhabited=20 although they are occasionally visited by scientists.

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