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Damage from tsunami in the Samoa islands

22:31 30/09/2009

A powerful tsunami, caused by an 8,3-magnitude earthquake in the southern Pacific Ocean, hit the remote Pacific islands of American and Western Samoa on Wednesday, claiming at least 99 lives.

A powerful tsunami, caused by an 8,3-magnitude earthquake in the southern Pacific Ocean, hit the remote Pacific islands of American and Western Samoa on Wednesday, claiming at least 99 lives.

 

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