WOODEND, New Zealand (Reuters) — New Zealand emergency services and defense personnel began evacuating hundreds of tourists and residents from the South Island town of Kaikoura on Tuesday (November 15), after a powerful earthquake hit the region, killing two people. The 7.8-magnitude tremor struck just after midnight on Sunday (November 13), destroying farm homesteads, sending glass and masonry toppling from high rises in the capital Wellington and cutting road and rail links throughout the northeast of […]