1. Earthquake in New
Zealand and Tsunami
warning
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2. Geography of New Zealand
The area of New Zealand is 268,680 square
kilometers. In New Zealand, there are main two
islands of North island and South island and a
lot of small islands. There is capital Wellington in
North island. Moreover, Auckland that is the
maximum city in this country is commerce and
an economic heartland. The precipitation day is
100 days or more a year, and moist towns. North
island doesn't have a mountain range as steep
as South island.

3. However, the volcanic activity is active. The highest
peak in North island is Mount Ruapehu of 2,797
m. South island is the big island of the land area. In
the central city, there is Christchurch. The South Alps
mountain range that is called "Alps mountain range
in the southern hemisphere" soars at the center of
the island. The highest peak is Mt. Cook of 3,754m.
Mine of 3,000m or more is additionally and there are
18. Rich nature like other Tasman Glacier, the
Southern Alps, Mt. Cook, and the Milford sounds, etc.
is famous. Queenstown is famous sightseeing and a
resort district in worldwide. The hot spring is
scattered in various places, too.

4. Earthquake in New Zealand
Earthquake happened in New Zealand. An earthquake
measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale jolted the Kermadec
Islands region of New Zealand at 1903 GMT on Wednesday,
the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was centered 161
km east of Raoul Island of the Kermadec Islands, which is some
920 km south of Tonga. The epicenter was at a depth of 20 km.
No damages have been reported so far. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami
Warning Center has issued a non- expanding regional tsunami
warning for the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand and the Pacific
nation of Tonga.

5. New Zealand's Civil Defense has issued a tsunami
warning for New Zealand's Northland, Bay of Plenty,
East Coast and Hawkes Bay. The National Crisis
Management Center has been activated and Civil
Defense said the first wave to arrive will reach New
Zealand at 8.52 a.m. on Thursday. Civil Defense said
people in coastal areas should stay off the beaches,
stay out of the water and not go sightseeing. A wave
of between 60 cm and 1 meter have been detected at
Raoul Island. Civil Defense said it is not expecting a
wall of water but is concerned about strong currents
in coastal areas.

6. Tsunami warning
In this case, Tsunami was happened by earth quake.
And then, Tsunami warning system
functioned. A Tsunami warning system is a system to
detect tsunamis and issue warnings to prevent loss
of life and property, whose roots extend back into the
1920s. It consists of two equally important
components: a network of sensors to detect
tsunamis and a communications infrastructure to
issue timely alarms to permit evacuation of coastal
areas.

7. There are two distinct types of tsunami warning
systems:international and regional. In the correct
operational paradigm, the seismic alerts are used to
send out the watches and warnings. Then, data from
observed sea level height are used to verify the
existence of a tsunami. Other systems have been
proposed to augment the warning paradigm. For
example, it has been suggested that the duration and
frequency content of t-wave energy is indicative of an
earthquake's tsunami potential.

8. for http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-
07/07/c_13969781.htm
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