Latest News on tsunami

Pacific panic over tsunami alert - Summary
Sydney - Panic spread among Pacific island nations after a tsunami warning was triggered by two massive earthquakes off the coast of Vanuatu Thursday morning. It took several hours for the Pacific Tsunami Center in Hawaii to cancel the warning once i...

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Samoa holds national memorial service for tsunami dead
Wellington - More than 5,000 people on Friday attended a national memorial service in the Pacific island state of Samoa for victims of last week's devastating tsunami, Radio New Zealand reported from the capital Apia. A total of 143 people were confi...

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Earthquake hits south-west Japan
Tokyo - An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook south-west Japan on Friday. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and the authorities did not issue a tsunami warning. ...

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Hundreds take part in tsunami drill in Indonesia
Jakarta - Hundreds of people in Indonesia's Aceh province took part in an Indian Ocean tsunami practice drill on Wednesday, officials said. As sirens wailed, mosque loudspeakers ordered residents of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on the nor...

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Tsunami warning lifted in Indonesia - Summary
Jakarta - Authorities lifted a tsunami warning after tidal waves did not materialize late Saturday following a powerful earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, which struck the Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia, seismologists said. The quak...

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Strong quake jolts eastern Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
Jakarta - Government authorities on late Saturday issued a tsunami warning after an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck the Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia, seismologists said. The quake struck at 9:40 pm Jakarta time (1440 GMT) ...

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Tsunami warning after 8.0 quake strikes Vuanuatu
Washington - An earthquake measuring 8.0 magnitude struck early Thursday local time about 294 kilometres north-north-west of Santo in the South Pacific island country of Vanuatu, US meteorologists said. The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an...

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New Zealand downgrades tsunami alert as 3 quakes shake Pacific
Wellington - New Zealand civil defence authorities downgraded an initial tsunami warning after three big quakes hit the South Pacific Thursday, saying there was no confirmation that a tsunami had been created. Any tsunami was unlikely to be destructi...

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Two large quakes trigger tsunami warnings, scramble - 2nd Update
Sydney - Residents of the South Pacific island nations of Vanuato and Fiji scrambled early Thursday for high ground after meteorologists issued a tsunami alert in the wake of two massive earthquakes. The PacificTsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued...

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EXTRA: Four-centimetre tsunami near Vanuatu followed quakes
Wellington - A tsunami measuring 0.04 metres was recorded near Vanuatu following three large earthquakes in the region, New Zealand civil defence authorities said on Thursday. They said any tsunami that reached New Zealand was not expected to be dest...

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EXTRA: Pacific tsunami warning cancelled after Vanuatu quakes
Sydney - The tsunami warning issued after two powerful earthquakes rocked the South Pacific near the Vanuatu archipelago has been cancelled, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said on Wednesday. The warning was issued after a 7.8 magnitude quake foll...

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