K, there were no effects in NZ [a minuscule wave arrived in due course]. New Zealand is donating quite a lot.
nzherald.co.nz
nzherald.co.nz
It looks like something like NZ$10 million = US$7 million, which is about US$2 per person. Bear in mind that NZ has about half the GDP per person that the USA has.
For the USA to match that, [GDP adjusted], they would donate about US$900 million in government and private donations.
So in the competition for bragging rights to see who is the most generous country or population, Saudi Arabia, the headquarters of Islam, with oodles of oil dollars, isn't really in the running although a lot of the victims are Moslem. Iran and other oil-rich Islamic Jihad countries seem to be not much interested either.
The USA has improved their position, but Japan is the biggest total donor.
New Zealand doesn't get in the news much. That doesn't mean nothing's happening, though it usually does.
The main thing is for people around the world who are so keen on living at sea level realize that the surface of the oceans are unstable and that means waves. The application of a Tunguska size pressure wave, or an Arizona size bolide impact, to the surface of the Pacific ocean would make a large wave which would depopulate places like Los Angeles, Tientsin, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Papamoa, Whakatane, Pauanui in a very large scale catastrophe.
Maybe they'll build survival bunkers or build their houses 50 metres above sea level [to avoid 95% of tsunamis].
Maybe too we'll hear less of the silly worries about greenhouse effect sea level rises. People will now understand a bit better that it's the sudden sea level rises that matter, not those taking place over a century.
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