Yes, it was a wacky wednesday for NZ and Samoa and other Pacific Regions as a massive 8.3 earthquake off the coast of America-Samoa just before 7:00AM caused a 6m tsunami to crash into the Samoan islands. Tsunami warnings were put in place in the north eastern regions of NZ as the tsunami was to travel down to and hit East Cape at exactly 9:44AM. I interviewed my father at precisely 9:42AM who was in the midst of this comotion. I quote him, "we were evicted from the beach and were told to go up a hill. Rather scary, cars in the paddics and people watching everywhere. No signs of huge waves as of yet...". As time went on the tsunami warnings were downgraded to alerts and in the end a sheet of water which measured 40cm weakly hit the coast of East Cape. Although, Samoa who were less fortunate than NZ was, atleast 100 deaths, 1 kiwi, have been confirmed, the death toll rising by the hour. A man in Samoa as the wave was hitting had this to say. "Um, we are just walking up this hill now, water everywhere. It just came into the resort we were staying at...". As of now, there is no threat as it ended at 12:00Pm today. Aftershocks are to be monitored if any. We will keep you posted, if need be.
Lindz Morris, Muddy Cow News.
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