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Tsunami Samoa 2009 | American Samoa Tsunami

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After a massive earthquake of 7.9 magnitude that occurred along a plate boundary in the American Samoa Island area at 6:48 AM local time, there was a tsunami affecting the island. Over 40 people have died and lots of villages have been swept away after tsunami. The death toll is expected to rise as many people are missing.

The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake, which was located about 204 km southwest of Samoa, at 8.0 on the Richter scale after earlier estimating it at 8.3.

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