NZ PM Appears Appears Unfazed During 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake

May.25 — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared unfazed when an earthquake struck during a live television interview on Monday. The 5.8 magnitude quake hit at 7:53 a.m. and was centered near Levin, a town about 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Wellington, seismic monitoring agency GeoNet said. Ardern interrupted Newshub host Ryan Bridge to tell him what was happening at the parliament complex in the capital, Wellington, where she was speaking from when the earhquake hit.


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New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres.

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