Is Apia in American Samoa

119 dead, villages'Exterminated' in Samoa Tsunami

APIA, Samoa - Police in the Emerald Reflecting West sought a grisly scenery of mud-dispersed roads, powdered houses and solids dispersed in a marsh Wednesday as daze surviveants surfaced from the dirt and swamps of an earthquake in the South Pacific that murdered 119. Airborne transport of health workers, supplies, groundwater and medicines to the Samoa and American Samoa Isles was ravaged by the Tuesday a. m. quake.

Ovivors recounted shocking stories about the encounter with the fatal tidal wave. It was shocking," said Didi Afuafi, 28, who was on a coach when the huge American Samoa ripples landed. "Everyone on the coach screamed, cried and tried to call their houses. "As the waters approached quickly, the coachman raced to a hill near by, where 300 to 500 persons were assembled, among them even those who were evicted from the central clinic.

These included newborn babies with infusions, sick babies and scared older persons. Helping in evacuating some of our clients, Afuafi said they were still nervous and afraid of another tremor. Ioane Suavai was shaken by the severe devastating seismic event that hit his 600-people town on Samoa - but he didn't have much restraint.

A few folks had enough warnings to run up in the air. Pacific Tsunami Warner in Hawaii said it sounded an alarm, but the ripples came to the island so quickly that the inhabitants only had about 10 minute time to heed. During the earthquake, about 120 leagues southward of the isles of Samoa, which has about 220,000 inhabitants, and American Samoa, a US territorial center of 65,000.

Of the four tidal wave, 15 to 20 ft (4 to 6 meters) high shouted on land on American Samoa about 15 mins after the tremor and reached up to a mil (1. 5 km) domestically, officers said. A further severe subsea tremor shook West Indonesia on Wednesday, less than 24 hrs after the Samoa tremor, and briefly triggered a tidal wave alarm for Indian Ocean states.

Suddenly the 7th magnitude 6 earthquake crashed building, cutting energy and triggering a mudslide on the Sumatran Isle, and at least 75 peoples were killed according to reports. Hindered by blackouts in electricity and communication, the officers on the South Pacific Isles fought for the detection of losses and damages. The member of the Samoa National Disaster Management Committe, Filomina Nelson, said to New Zealand's National Radio that the number of deaths in her own state has risen to 83 - mostly older and youngsters.

Togiola Tulafono said at least 30 persons were murdered in American Samoa. Tonga, south-west of the Samoas, reported at least six deaths and four disappearances, according to New Zealand's incumbent Prime Minister Bill English. The C-130 Coast Guard aircraft with relief supplies and Federal Agency officers flown from Hawaii to Pago Pago, the American Samoa capitol, where runway rubble had been removed to allow aircraft to be landed in an emergencies situation.

President Barack Obama said a great catastrophe for American Samoa. At Pago Pago the roads and meadows were full of rubble, sludge, fallen automobiles and canoes. Energy was anticipated to be out in several areas for up to a month at a time and civil servants said there were about 2,200 peole in seven guards across the isle.

"At the moment we are focusing on getting help for the wounded and immediate needs of the immediate needs of the ten thousand down there," said FEMA administrator Craig Fugate. Strengthening was on the way, among them a Navy fregate and two giant freighters of the Air Force, which were soon to take off from Hawaii.

The English said the interim mortuary and corpse ID teams were sent to Samoa after locals voiced their concerns about the increasing number of deaths. "The American Samoa radios were bombed by several hundred individuals asking for the name of their family. The BBC recounted to Joey Cummings from the 1993KHJ Pago Pago Broadcasting Corporation that he was watching a 15-foot sunami surge from a terrace and "the atmosphere was full of screams".

" But they just ran down the road away from the waves instead of making a hard lefthand and up the precipitous hill just a few meters further. A few folks plundered shops, he said, and added that corpses were piled up in back pickups.

The High Chief Loa Pele Faletogo, Chairman of the Samoan Federation of America, consoled the Samoans in the USA who came to him to receive messages from their family. The 65 people employed in Samoa National Park have been considered, said Holly Bundock, spokesperson for the Pacific West Region of the National Park Service in Oakland, California.

There are 13 staff and between 30 and 50 seasonal staff. Australian Foreign Ministry said three Australians were among the deceased. British Foreign Office said a Briton was reported gone and presumably deceased. There are so many disappeared," said the clearly shocked Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailelele Malielegaoi when he left New Zealand for Apia.

Even though the alert rang out on the air and gave man enough rocket to get up, "not everyone got away," he added. Tulafono said before he boarded the C-130 with FEMA officers in Hawaii that "every family" in American Samoa knows one of the deaths. Whilst the earthquakes and tsunamis were great, they were not on a par with the 2004 Indian Ocean tidal wave, which claimed the lives of more than 230,000 lives of more than a decade in a large number of Asian states.

Though the earthquakes in the Samoas and Indonesia hit within 24 work time of one another, person same location was no family between them.