New Zealand has formally asked Australia for assistance as the nation moves to clean up and recover from the trail of wreckage that Cyclone Gabrielle left.
On Wednesday evening, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake also struck near the nation’s capital, Wellington. However, no tsunami warning was issued because the quake was “too deep to perturb seafloor,” GeoNet wrote on Twitter.
The deputy head of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Pacific Office, Elizabeth Peak, told the Senate that both emergency management teams had been working together over the last few days on providing possible support.
“We set up yesterday a national management coordination function to be able to respond very quickly when the request came through, and we will certainly do that,” she said….