Technical glitch affects tsunami emergency mobile alerts

Thursday 31 July 2025 · 6 outlets · 3 reports · updated Thu 31 Jul 2025, 1:16pm

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A technical glitch caused tsunami emergency alerts to be sent multiple times or not at all to some New Zealanders at 6.30am today. Officials state the threat to New Zealand coasts remains high following a large earthquake in Russia on Wednesday.

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1. 1News via RNZThu 31 Jul 2025, 8:51am

   What's going on with the emergency mobile phone alerts? (opens in new tab)

2. Otago Daily TimesThu 31 Jul 2025, 9:20am

   What's going on with tsunami phone alerts? (opens in new tab)

3. The Post via RNZThu 31 Jul 2025, 1:16pm

   'Technical glitch' sends out tsunami emergency alert to phones multiple times or not at all (opens in new tab)

   Also on Waikato Times (opens in new tab), RNZ (opens in new tab), The Press (opens in new tab)