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2009 tsunami
Lessons for a destabilising planet: insights from the 2009 South Pacific earthquake-tsunami disaster
THE CONVERSATION — Just before 7am on September 29, 2009, a magnitude 8 earthquake struck the sea floor in the central South Pacific, about 190kms south of Samoa. It was exactly the sort of earthquake – in fact, it was two almost simultaneous quakes – that create devastating tsunami.
The Earth’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Pacific Risk Management `Ohana (PRiMO) meeting opened Tuesday at the ASCC Multi Purpose Center.
PRiMO brings together over 150 delegates to channel efforts towards common goals to build community resilience in American Samoa, this includes looking at lessons learnt...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pulenu’u or village mayors from five villages in American Samoa that were affected by the earthquake and tsunami of 2009 shared their stories from that fateful morning of 29 September 2009 at the Pacific Risk Management `Ohana (PRIMO) Meeting in American Samoa this week...
Saleapaga, SAMOA — The morning of the tsunami, Perelini Ulugia was halfway through shaving his face, when the earth shook the walls of the fale around him.
“I thought maybe one of my brothers in law was playing a joke on me, shaking the house,” he said. It wasn’t until he stepped out that he...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “I bring a very simple message from our Crisis Counseling program. Three very important reminders for all of us because we all deal with trauma, we all deal with pain, we all deal with tragedy,” said Lupe Sunia Fiso of the Department of Human and Social Services in her...