At least 110 people killed in Samoa, 22 people in American Samoa and seven people on Niuatoputapu, Tonga. Widespread damage to infrastructure at Pago Pago, American Samoa, in many parts of Samoa and on Niuatoputapu, Tonga. Felt (V) at Apia, Samoa and (IV) at Tafuna, American Samoa. Felt in much of American Samoa, Samoa and northern Tonga. Felt as far away as Wallis and Futuna Islands. A tsunami with wave heights (peak-to-trough) was recorded at: 314 cm at Pago Pago, American Samoa; 140 cm at Apia, Samoa; 47 cm at Rarotonga and 8 cm at Penrhyn, Cook Islands; 14 cm at Nuku`alofa, Tonga; 11 cm at Papeete, French Polynesia. On the basis of currently available location and fault mechanism information, we infer that the September 29 earthquake occurred as a normal fault rupture on or near the outer rise of the subducting Pacific plate.
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Its sad that so many people died but shouldn't people be checking the ricter scale ?
ReplyDeleteWow so many people died, it really is sad to hear that. I agree with you Gilana, I wonder why they didn't check their ricter scale. If hey had done that maybe they would have been more aware of the disaster coming and more people would have lived.
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