People walk through debris following a powerful quake, in Pago Pago village, on American Samoa Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. The 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.
The damage from the Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami that struck the village of Leone in American Samoa, approximately ten miles west of the port city of Pago Pago. Television images showed homes ripped apart, cars submerged in the sea or lodged in trees and large fishing boats hurled ashore by the waves generated by a 8.0 magnitude quake southwest of American Samoa.
The damage from the Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami that struck the village of Leone in American Samoa, approximately ten miles west of the port city of Pago Pago. Television images showed homes ripped apart, cars submerged in the sea or lodged in trees and large fishing boats hurled ashore by the waves generated by a 8.0 magnitude quake southwest of American Samoa. People pick up items in the Seaside Store and Gas Station in Fagatogo, American Samoa after towering tsunami waves swept ashore and washed over the shoreline store knocking out the front door and windows early Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009.
Rose Island, seen here from outside the atoll rim, one of two small islands within the lagoon of Rose Atoll in American Samoa, illustrating the low-lying islands in the area.
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