Japan tsunami hit every part of NZ coast
The tsunami resulting from the last week’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan reached every section of New Zealand’s coastline, data has shown. The NZ Herald reported the country’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) was saying that every centimetre of New Zealand’s 15,134km coastline was hit, peaking in the Chatham Islands, which was hit by 1.6-metre waves. The tsunami, which initially travelled at 800kph, even reached in Antarctica, the report said. No casualties were reported in New Zealand, but coastal communities in several Pacific islands experienced widespread structural damage, and one person died in the Indonesian province of East Papua.
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