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Islands of the Pacific Ring of Fire (Island Week 4)
Friday, 2nd October 2009 by Alex Turnbull
It’s Island Week 4 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week. On September 29, 2009, just south of the islands that make up the Independent State of Samoa in Polynesia, an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Moment Magnitude scale occurred, which generated a tsunami that swept across the nearby islands killing at least 149 people. Most of the victims were on Samoa…







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