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New Zealand Earthquake Prompts Tsunami Warning as Alpine Fault Clock Ticks Toward Overdue

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattled New Zealand's South Island at 9:14 p.m. Thursday local time, striking roughly 40 kilometers north of Te Anau in the remote mountains of northern Fiordland and ...

Tsunami warning downgraded after three earthquakes hit New Zealand

There is no tsunami threat in all other areas. Earlier, warning sirens sounded and thousands of New Zealanders on the North ...