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Huge earthquake
rocks New Zealand

Calcutta
News.Net
Sunday 30th September, 2007

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

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

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

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was later withdrawn except for the island state of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

There were no reports of casualties or damage.

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

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

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

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