Tsunami alert: mass evacuation order issued for New Zealand's North Island following earthquake

Residents on east coast instructed to move to higher land, after third quake of dayA powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off the eastern side of New Zealand’s North Island, prompting a second tsunami warning hours after an earlier alert was withdrawn.The New Zealand National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) issued a national warning on Friday morning, saying people on the east coast of North Island “must move immediately to the nearest high ground, out of all tsunami evacu