Tsunami threat passes for Vanuatu and New Caledonia, New Zealand warns of dangerous currents, coastal surges.

Tsunami threat passes for Vanuatu and New Caledonia, New Zealand warns of dangerous currents, coastal surges.
Prosecutors have argued that the executives were aware of the dangers of a nuclear plant located on Japan’s coast.
Plan will see some 1 million tonnes of water used to cool the ruined plant’s reactors released into the Pacific.
The first 7.0 quake was followed by a second large tremor, cutting power in the capital and disrupting radio broadcasts.
Government says Repsol spilled about 6,000 barrels of oil into the ocean last week near its La Pampilla refinery.
UN says some 60,000 people affected by damage to crops, livestock, fisheries due to ashfall and saltwater intrusion.
Satellite images suggest the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai could cause long-lasting environmental damage.
There are some 1,350 potentially active volcanoes around the world, many located around the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’.
The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai triggered tsunami waves in Tonga and other places around the world.
New Zealand leader says volcanic eruption damaged Tonga’s capital, but there are no reports of deaths as of yet.
The warnings, issued for he US states of Alaska and Hawaii, the US Pacific territory of Guam, were later cancelled.
Government pledges to make water safe before release, but plan draws swift condemnation from China, South Korea.
Japan observes a minute of silence to commemorate the lives lost in the triple disaster of March 11, 2011.
It’s 10 years since a 4-storey high tsunami crashed into Japan’s northeastern coast. Steve Chao reported from the area.