New Zealand Formally Requests Assistance to Deal With Cyclone Gabrielle Recovery

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (L) speaks to media with Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni (R) ahead of Cyclone Gabrielle's arrival at Waka Kotahi Auckland Transport operations room in Auckland, New Zealand, on Feb. 12, 2023. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images

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.