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2009 earthquake and tsunami
Members of the Rotary Club of Pago Pago posed for a Samoa News photo yesterday morning, after placing a bouquet of flowers on the monument which lists the names of the 34 victims of the Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami — the worst natural disaster in American Samoa’s recent history. At that ceremony Rotary...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Today marks the 11th anniversary of the 2009 earthquake — followed by a tsunami — that claimed the lives of 34 people in American Samoa, 3 in Tonga, and more than 100 in Samoa.
The COVID-19 restrictions have hampered any major government memorial service. With Samoa and...