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Strong earthquake rattles New Zealand's South Island
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the town of Te Anau in New Zealand's South Island, shaking buildings and prompting authorities to briefly issue a tsunami warning.
Summary
Local resident Maylene Puyat, the duty manager at Te Anau's Fiordland Hotel, told Reuters the earth quake was "a bit strong" and she felt shaking for one minute. "In the hotel, it's shaking, but nothing moved in the hotel," she said. "The walls were definitely moving," they said.
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- Maylene Puyat
Organisations
- National Emergency Management Agency
- Centre for Geosciences
- Otago Daily Times
- Reuters
- Te Anau
- NEMA
- GFZ
- GMT
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- South Island2
- New Zealand2
- Fiordland Hotel
- Fiordland
- should
- South
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- earthquake2
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- rattles
- shaking
- strikes
- german
- strong
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