Amateur video footage has been posted to YouTube showing the massive destruction from Tuesday’s tsunami that leveled villages in American Samoa.
In the video, you can see houses that have been completely wiped out. All that remains are the foundations. Vehicles were slammed into homes and left stranded in trees.
The sheer destructive force is [...]

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The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami advisory for some coastal areas of California, including Santa Cruz County, following the 8.3 earthquake that struck American Samoa on Tuesday.
The advisory is really just a heads-up to mariners because the threat seems to be minimal. The tsunami size is being estimated in centimeters.
“It could generate some [...]

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UPDATE: A witness told Radio New Zealand that villages on the south-east coast of Samoa’s Upolu had been flattened by the earthquake and that police were moving people to higher ground.
Shaking near the epicenter reportedly lasted up to three minutes.
A number of aftershocks also hit the area after the initial earthquake. “We are seeing a [...]

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UPDATE – 8:26AM EDT: The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center now reports that the tsunami generated following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake off of New Zealand is small and poses no threat.
The warning center reports that no destructive waves are moving toward New Zealand’s coastline in the wake of a tsunami warning was [...]

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