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2009 tsunami
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa prepared last week to remember the victims of the cataclysmic tsunami that on September 29, 2009 took the lives of 34 in American Samoa, 149 in Samoa and 9 lives in the Kingdom of Tonga plus millions of dollars of damage in the area — an eyewitness who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Governor Talauega E.V. Ale in his capacity as acting governor issued a memorandum yesterday calling on the people of American Samoa to pay tribute to the memory of the 34 people who lost their lives in the 2009 tsunami, which occurred on this date 14 years ago.
“As...
Leone village just hours after the tsunami came ashore. Residents reported that there were two waves one after another that swept people out to sea. There were 8 deaths reported in Leone. In total, there were 34 victims in American Samoa. In honor of the 34 American Samoa victims, whose lives...
Off island delegates including the U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross officials, bow their heads during a “moment of silence” to remember the lives of the 34 local residents who died in the September 2009 tsunami. This was part of the opening yesterday of the last...
![[l-r] Pita ‘Pete’ Tanielu, with his mother, Sapapali’i and sister, Edwina last Saturday at Lions Park](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/edwina_award.jpg?itok=btJp2AyV "[l-r] Pita ‘Pete’ Tanielu, with his mother, Sapapali’i and sister, Edwina last Saturday at Lions Park during the Rotary Club of Pago Pago and Hawaiian Airlines’ 10th anniversary memorial service of the deadly Sept. 29, 2009 earthquake/ tsunami victims. Edwina is seen holding her scholarship award presented by Laura Lafoia Ava Tesimale, co-founder of US-based One Global Family Foundation (OGFF). [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two members of the Tanielu family — Edwina and Blessing — were awarded scholarships from One Global Family Foundation (OGFF) at last Saturday’s Leions Park memorial service commemorating the 10th anniversary of the deadly 2009 tsunami. Their father was among the victims...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Eleven-year-old Malakai Seva’aetasi (middle) holding his scholarship award presented last Saturday by US-based One Global Family Foundation (OGFF) co-founder, Laura Lafoia Ava Tesimale (far right), and her daughter Brittany (far left) last Saturday at Lions Park during...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “In Loving Memory of Those We Lost: A September to Remember- Tsunami of 2009” was the theme of the government sponsored 10th anniversary memorial service of the 2009 tsunami last Saturday morning at the Veterans Memorial Center malae, where more than 300 mourners...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAOA — Several family members representing the 34 people in American Samoa who perished in the Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami attended Saturday's memorial service hosted by the territorial government marking the 10th anniversary of the worst natural disaster in American Samoa’s history...
Apia, SAMOA — Church services throughout Samoa on Sunday remembered the victims and the families on the tenth anniversary of of one of the country’s worst natural disasters, the 2009 tsunami.
The magnitude 8.1 submarine earthquake along the Tonga Trench subduction zone generated a tsunami with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has ordered that all flags in American Samoa be flown at half-staff, to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 2009 earthquake and tsunami; meanwhile, the government is holding a memorial service Saturday, Sept. 28.
Sunday, Sept. 29th, marks...