NEW ZEALAND: Residents Head to the Hills as Tsunami Sirens Sound in Sumner November 130:16
Residents of Sumner, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, headed to the nearby hills after a magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck the country's Southern Island on November 13. This video shows cars hitting the road as tsunami sirens are turned on. The New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence (MCDEM) warned residents on the east coast to move to higher ground due to a tsunami threat caused by the quake. Credit: Twitter/georgeberrynz via Storyful
The largest Supermoon in more than 70 years will be visible in the night sky tonight.
Search for Matt Leveson enters Day Five
The search for missing man Matthew Leveson will enter its fifth day this morning.
Police are expected to expand their search area at Waterfall, in the Royal National Park, after there was no breakthrough on Sunday.
Family and friends of Matthew, who disappeared in September 2007, have spent days watching police using a digger rip through undergrowth and scour bush for remains.
The small team have combed the uneven ground covered with fallen trees using surveying equipment but so far have not unearthed any trace of Mr Leveson.
Investigators were led there by Mr Atkins, Mr Leveson’s former lover, who was in 2009 acquitted of his murder.
For nine years he had refused to tell the family what had happened to Mr Leveson but relented after being forced to give evidence at a NSW coronial inquest where he admitted to lying to police and being offered conditional immunity from prosecution.
The search for missing man Matthew Leveson will enter its fifth day this morning.Source:News Corp Australia
Gable Tostee breaks his silence
After two long years, Gable Tostee has broken his silence about the night Warriena Wright died.
Given the reaction to his 60 Minutes interview, however, the 30-year-old Gold Coaster may have been better to have maintained it.
It didn’t help that he was paid $150,000 for the tell-all, which further infuriated viewers.
After two years, Gable Tostee has broken his silence about the night Warriena Wright died.Source:AAP
The Supermoon is on its way
The largest supermoon in over 70 years will be visible in the night sky tonight.
It’s so rare that more than 60,000 people have indicated they will be heading down to the city’s beach to watch the supermoon rise above the ocean.
A supermoon over the Statue of Liberty in New York in 2013.Source:AP
The last time this took place was when the Cold War was just beginning to get heated, with supermoons linked to everything from earthquakes to political catastrophe.
The Supermoon rises above the skyline with the Sydney Opera House in foreground in 2015.Source:Supplied
This supermoon is not expected to come close again until 2034.
A plane flights across the supermoon surrounded by a Madrid skyscraper on August 9, 2014 in Madrid, Spain.Source:Supplied
But people in Sydney and Melbourne may be in for a disappointment — Fairfax reports heavy clouding is expected in both cities this evening, which aren’t ideal.
The moonrise will be at 7.07pm in Sydney, 7.40pm in Melbourne, 5.51pm in Brisbane and 6.33pm in Perth.
Happy moon-viewing!
Deadly quake hits NZ’S South Island
A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has rocked New Zealand’s South Island, triggering a tsunami and strong aftershocks, and killing at least two people.
The US Geological Survey said the quake hit just after midnight Monday (10pm Sunday AEDT) near Hanmer Springs, about 90 kilometres from Christchurch, which was devastated five years ago by a 6.3 tremor.
The tsunami arrived in the north-eastern coast less than two hours later, with irregular waves of up to two metres being reported in Kaikoura. Authorities say bigger waves are expected.
Fissures run along a road by the Centre Port in Wellington, Monday, November 14, 2016, after a major earthquake struck New Zealand's south Island early Monday.Source:AP