<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9681a271-eeb3-4c6f-a4c5-665442c6d5f8/2BC4D26C-86DE-44CE-83F9-5736E34806D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><H1 class="headline">Massive Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Near Samoa</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><P><STRONG>Sept. 29, 2009</STRONG> -- A powerful <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/22/earthquake-critical.html">earthquake</A> with a magnitude of up to 8.3 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Tuesday, triggering a <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/21/volcano-tsunami-caribbean.html"> tsunami</A> as coastal residents fled to higher ground.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/BA9AF908-FB39-4C6A-A17F-928D30C283F3" alt="earthquake tsunami" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><P>The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said waves 1.57 meters (five feet) tall hit <A target="_blank" href="http://geography.howstuffworks.com/oceania-and-australia/geography-of-american-samoa.htm">American Samoa</A>, while 0.7 meter waves were recorded in Samoa.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><P>The center had earlier issued a tsunami warning for a large swathe of the South Pacific including Fiji, New Zealand and <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/20/tonga-quake-tsunami.html">Tonga</A> after the U.S. Geological Survey reported a 7.9 magnitude quake.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><P>The center later said an 8.3 magnitude quake had been recorded at a depth of 33 kilometers (21 miles). It was not immediately clear if this was the same quake and the USGS's website did not provide exact details of its location.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/earthquake-tsunami-samoa.html"><P>"Sea level readings indicate a tsunami was generated," said a statement from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2BC4D26C-86DE-44CE-83F9-5736E34806D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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