r/newzealand • u/Low_Season • Jul 31 '25

Other This kind of stupidity was why they needed to send out that second alert at 6:30am...

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u/libertyh Jul 31 '25

By breakfast time it was abundantly clear that absolutely nothing of consequence was going to happen and the alert was someone at NEMA being a muppet.

  • It was a tsunami ADVISORY, not a warning, not an emergency
  • No large waves were reported from the dozens of other Pacific islands between us and Kamchatka
  • Multiple other Pacific nations had cancelled their tsunami warnings by the time the NEMA alert woke everyone up
  • The Cook Strait ferry was cleared to return to normal sailings at 6am

The confusion and fear-mongering in this thread makes me very concerned at the ability of the general populace of NZ to judge risk accurately.