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07 Oct 2009 19:44

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World: The Pacific earthquake tour rocks Vanuatu this time

  • 7.8 the size of the quake; 11 nations face a tsunami warning source

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 source

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 source

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 source

30 Sep 2009 08:37

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World: The Samoan earthquake felt like “the end of the world”

  • I thought it was the end of the world. I have never felt an earthquake like that before.
  • Salamo Laumoli • The Director of Health Services at LBJ Tropical Medical Center, describing how it felt to be in Pago Pago, the capital of America Samoa, when the quake hit. The American-owned island’s governor, Togiola Tulafono, ranked Tuesday’s quake “right up there with some of the worst” natural disasters. • source

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

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 source
 

28 May 2009 10:22

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World: Honduras is on high tsunami alert following huge quake

  • 7.1 strength of the quake, which has only killed one so far source

19 Mar 2009 20:37

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World: A massive earthquake leads to tsunami warnings

  • 7.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Tongo source