TSUNAMI WARNING!

The whole northcoast has been evacuated due to an earthquake in the pacific bringing a possible tsunami over...

after just having a google...we read:

NEW Zealand's tsunami warning has been cancelled after waves just 40cm high registered in the wake of a massive Pacific earthquake.

New Zealanders had been on high alert for waves over one metre to hit the country's northern and eastern coasts on Wednesday morning.

But the warning was cancelled when the first waves seen at the country's northern-most point were ``considerably smaller'', just 40cm high.

``The wave, when it arrived was only 40cm high,'' Vince Cholewa from New Zealand's Civil Defence Ministry told AAP.

``I don't think waves of that height are going to hurt anyone so we cancelled the national warning completely.''


(thats my favourite bit!)