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Samoan Islands Tsunami Damage
October 15, 2009 | NASA Earth Observatory

NASA’s Earth Observatory has before and after satellite images that show obvious damage that occurred on September 29, 2009, when a tsunami struck the southern shoreline of Upolu, the easternmost of the Samoan islands.


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