VIDEO: Samoa Tsunami Flattens Villages

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 18:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Tsunami waves, sparked by a powerful underwater earthquake, swept away people and cars and flattened villages in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga in the South Pacific on Tuesday—as seen in amateur video.

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