tsunami alert
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A tsunami alert was issued mid-afternoon yesterday local time for Pacific islands, Russia and Japan after a magnitude 8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey says.
The quake was shallow and strong enough to cause waves or a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — .A tsunami advisory is now in effect for American Samoa, according to the National Weather Service, Pago Pago after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 occurred about 127 miles south of Upolu island today.
A tsunami was generated by this earthquake and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hundreds of local residents panicked when things started ‘shaking’ — for a few seconds — this past Monday.
It was due to an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 that occurred about 81 miles south of Savaii Island at 5:19 p.m, this past Monday, Oct. 21st,...

![The "Simply Ono" Food Truck served impending tsunami evacuees at Kaiser High School parking lot on 7/29/25 at 8pm. The customer and cashier are learning from their phones that ocean waters are receding at Haliewa and Kailua Bay in Oahu, Hawaii. The state of Hawaii was on alert for a tsunami after an 8.7- magnitude earthquake off Russia yesterday. An emergency alert was issued by the National Weather Service around 1:30 p.m. — effective at 0243 PM HST. [Photo by Barry Markowitz, 7/29/25, 8pm] Simply Ono food truck](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_0638.jpg?itok=RY5lVClp)

