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 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: South Pacific paradise has seismically active day! |
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APIA, Samoa - A massive tsunami hurled by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing Wednesday. The toll was expected to rise.
Survivors fled the fast-churning water for higher ground on the South Pacific islands and remained huddled there hours after the quake, with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn Tuesday.
The quake was centered about 125 miles from Samoa, an island nation of 180,000 people located about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii. It was about 120 miles from neighboring American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people.
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The same day, western Indonesia was rocked by a strong underwater quake, briefly triggering a tsunami alert for countries along the Indian Ocean and sending panicked residents out of their houses. The alert was later canceled.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33075304/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?GT1=43001 and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33085687/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?ns=world_news-asiapacific
I hope none of you were affected by either of these. |
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