The first of a series of tsunami waves approaches the shore at the Ulimasao Marist Center in Vailoa in Samoa Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. The photo was taken by Matthew Putt, one of a group of students from Sacred Heart College in Auckland New Zealand, who were on a school trip to Samoa. The series of waves flooded and damaged the center, but no one was injured. A powerful quake in the South Pacific hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and sweeping cars and people back out to sea while leaving scores dead and dozens missing.
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Tsunami damage outside Apia in Samoa on Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. A powerful quake in the South Pacific hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga flattening villages and sweeping cars and people back out to sea while leaving more than 100 dead and dozens missing.
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Director Chip McCreery, points at wave activity computer grafts measured at Honolulu Harbor from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, September 29, 2009 in Ewa Beach, Hawaii on Oahu. An earthquake with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck American Samoa today causing tsunami warning to be issued across the Pacific. Tsunami waves tsunami waves swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday, flattening villages, killing at least 34 people. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center cancelled the tsunami watch on Hawaii today.
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Floodwaters from tsunami waves are seen at the Ulimasao Marist Center, in Vailoa, in Samoa Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. The photo was taken by Matthew Putt, one of a group of students from Sacred Heart College in Auckland New Zealand, who were on a school trip to Samoa and staying in the center. The series of waves flooded and damaged the center, but no one was injured. A powerful quake in the South Pacific hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and sweeping cars and people back out to sea while leaving scores dead and dozens missing.
AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Matthew Putt
A boy punts his way across a flooded area on the outskirts of Manila on October 3, 2009. Typhoon Parma pummeled the northern Philippines on October 3, toppling trees and cutting off power and telephone lines, as its rains threatened to bring more misery to millions of flood survivors in Manila.
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Residents queue up to receive relief goods in the town of Cainta, Rizal province east of of Manila on October 2, 2009. President Gloria Arroyo on October 2 placed the entire Philippines under a "state of calamity," as a powerful typhoon threatened more devastation following deadly floods, her spokesman said.
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The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Parma on October 1 at 2:25 UTC (10:25 a.m. local Asia/Manila Time) approaching the Philippines (left), part of which are already under a part of Parma's clouds.
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A woman carrying her child wades through a flooded street as they go along with their daily business in the town of Taytay, Rizal province east of of Manila on October 2, 2009. President Gloria Arroyo on October 2 placed the entire Philippines under a "state of calamity," as a powerful typhoon threatened more devastation following deadly floods, her spokesman said.
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Residents ride on makeshift rafts as they go along with their daily business in the town of Taytay, Rizal province east of of Manila on October 2, 2009. President Gloria Arroyo on October 2 placed the entire Philippines under a "state of calamity," as a powerful typhoon threatened more devastation following deadly floods, her spokesman said.
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US Marines distribute clothing and medical supplies after the flooding on the outskirts of Manila on October 2, 2009. Typhoon Ketsana has brought devastation across Southeast Asia, killing at least 293 people in the Philippines last weekend before moving on to kill 99 in Vietnam and 16 in Laos.
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