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01 Oct 2009 10:09

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World: Early warning system? More like late warning in Samoa’s case

  • 15 minutes – the time it takes scientists to properly analyze the data from an earthquake
  • 18 minutes for the first early warning to be made; by that time, waves had already hit Samoa source
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01 Oct 2009 09:09

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World: Scary: The Indonesia quake death toll just leaped over Samoa

  • 529+ dead in the Indonesian earthquake at last count; that’s a huge jump from our last tally
  • 154+ dead in the Samoan earthquake and tsunami; that’s not that big a jump from last time source
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30 Sep 2009 20:31

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World: We don’t like these massive earthquake death tolls

  • 110+ have died in the Samoan earthquake and tsunami
  • 75+ have died in the Indonesian earthquake source
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30 Sep 2009 08:25

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World: What’s with the earthquakes? Sumatra, Indonesia also hit by one

  • 7.6 the rating of the quake, off the city of Padang; like the Samoan quake yesterday, it could have been much, much worse
  • 900,000 people live in Padang; experts say, based on its location, the entire city could be destroyed by a strong quake/tsnuami someday source
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30 Sep 2009 08:17

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World: It could have been worse, but the Samoa tsunami still killed many

  • 99+ people have been killed near Samoa by the tsunami source
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29 Sep 2009 20:57

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World: The Samoa tsunami looked scary at first, but now it’s not so bad

  • 14
    killed     the death toll from the tsunami near Samoa, which was rooted in an 8.0 earthquake earlier today
  • much worse the expected impact; forecasters had issued a watch for Hawaii and warnings in New Zealand source
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