Word: samoan
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...unleashed upon the Asia-Pacific region in just a week's time. In late September, tropical storm Ketsana killed more than 160 people in Vietnam and nearly 300 in the Philippines, submerging 80% of Manila. Just hours before Sumatra was jolted, another earthquake triggered a tsunami that inundated the Samoan islands and Tonga, extinguishing some 180 lives. In the latest catastrophe, southern India was ravaged by some of the worst torrential rains in decades, killing around 300 people and leaving some 2 million others homeless. (See pictures of tsunami striking South Pacific...
...tsunami, unleashed by an underseas earthquake with an 8.0 magnitude hit the Samoan Islands early Tuesday morning...
Communication with the Samoan Islands, Leonard said, has been difficult because phone lines and e-mail servers have been flooded by people trying to get in touch with their loved ones. Most of the information that Leonard has received was conveyed to her via text messages and Facebook, but undeveloped technology and spotty Internet have made these methods unreliable as well...
Although Leonard is not Samoan, she said she has maintained strong ties with the people she met on the island—especially her host family, whom she refers to simply as her “family...
...Sumatra that is not far from Padang on the western side of the island. In 2006, an earthquake hit the metropolis of Yogyakarta on the island of Java, killing more than 5,000 people. (A day before Padang was jolted, a South Pacific earthquake triggered a tsunami around the Samoan islands and Tonga, killing more than 100 people, but scientists are expressing reservations that the two sets of seismic activity along the so-called Ring of Fire were related...