Earthquake & Tsunami strikes American Samoa

An earthquake triggers tsunami, with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn about 20 miles below the ocean floor, 120 miles (190 kilometers) from American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people, and 125 miles (200 kilometers) from Samoa.

An unspecified number of fatalities and injuries were reported in the Samoan village of Talamoa. Mase Akapo, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in American Samoa, said at least 14 people were killed in four different villages on the main island of Tutuila, while 20 people died neighboring Samoa. The initial quake was followed by at three aftershocks of at least 5.6 magnitude.

"It was very quick. Three or four villages on the popular tourist coast near the southern town of Lalomanu on Samoa's main island of Upolu had been "wiped out" by waves that roared ashore early Wednesday.

Disaster: July 22, 2009 Tsunami

OMG!!!! as in... is this for real???? Oh my good Lord, please don't this happen...save us...

I really don't understand if it is a joke or just some kind of fabricated chain letter circulating in e-mails but the e-mail I got this morning goes something like this:


Please be more cautious as the warnings has been given.

Attached a photo for u.





I just received this message from a colleague. I don’t know the source of the message; I also don’t know the credibility of the content, but just beware.

Below is the content on the message:

“Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22nd. It is also when there will be sun eclipse. Predicted that it is going 2 be really bad and countries like Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Indonesia, Philippines are going 2 be badly hit. Please try and stay away from the beaches in July. Better 2 be safe than sorry. Please pass the word around. Please also pray for all beings.”

Thanks and have a nice day.

Bless you~


After reading this e-mail I checked the Google right away, search about this bad news and found out that it's been circulating in the e-mails since April 2009 (isn't it one of the many April Fools Day joke???) And can they really detect the time of when it's going to happen??? And I notice in the picture that disaster is mispelled (they were able to check the day and time but they forgot to check their spelling..hehehe!!)

Know what, this kind of disaster should be taken seriously and carefully coz I know the felling of being scared and fear of what your going to do. I also experienced this last 2 years ago when we have a tsunami warning. The feeling is really unexplainable especially if you're leaving in an island like us that's surrounded by waters. Most establishments, our houses is just across the beach, it's really heart pounding everytime when the police opens their sirens (wang-wang) while roaming around the area and announced using their megaphones that we need to go in the higer places....huhuhu!!!! We just found ourselves rushing up to pick some important things and leave the place right away..

Well, whether it's true or just a joke, we really need to pray hard that this will not happen and that the Lord protects us all always...