WELLINGTON: New Zealand is assessing the possibility of a tsunami risk after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the country's northeast islands region.
According to Xinhua, the quake hit the Kermadec Islands region with a depth of 49 km at 12.41 pm local time.
People should be self-evacuating immediately from all places near the coast where the earthquake was felt "for longer than a minute or was strong enough that it was hard to stand", New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.
"In these areas a tsunami may have been generated and may arrive quickly, so evacuate immediately to the nearest high ground or as far inland as possible," it added.
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