Panic and confusion hit New Zealand this morning but fortunately nothing else. The strongest earthquake of the year hit off the coast of Tonga in the early hours. Apparently NZ civil defence was told about this but decided not to mention anything and left if to foreign media sources to break the news that a dangerous Tsunami was scheduled to hit the NZ coastline at 6.20am.
As it turns out there was no Tsunami but it's good to know the authorities are on the ball.
Luckily there doesn't appear to be human casualties other than someone in a Tongan hotel who, when the tremour struck, panicked and threw himself out of his 3rd floor window. He's now in hospital.
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i don't think he jumped out of the window because of the earthquake - i believe it is because he made a disparaging comment on alan shearer then read your blog and didn't fancy having you hunt him down!!
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Given his location on the planet he was probably a United fan. Even more reason to give him a shooing.
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Do you come from Oldham? Glory-hunting Latics, they're all the same - jumped on the bandwagon c89/90 (banter)
Obviously NZ residents were told about the possible tsunami on a "need to know" basis. Perhaps they took your attendance at that swimming gala thing as adequate preparation?
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