Disaster In The Pacific: Typhoon, Earthquakes, Tsunami Devastate Area Horror Video

Disaster In The Pacific: Typhoon, Earthquakes, Tsunami Devastate Area Horror Video / Rachel Maddow shares video and onsite reports covering this week’s earthquakes, tsunami and typhoon–all in the Pacific area and Southeast Asia. Hundreds of people are dead. Rescue efforts are underway. And another quake hit Indonesia even after this report.

Indonesia - Samoan Islands Earthquake Kills 2,500 People So Far Horror Video

Indonesia - Samoan Islands Earthquake Kills 2,500 People So Far Horror Video

Samoan Samoa Islands get hit affected by earthquake. Kills thousands 1000s of people.

Travelers preparing for trips to the Far East and Polynesia are being warned by the British Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) to take extreme caution following a powerful tsunami that struck Samoa and an earthquake that later rocked Indonesia.

The alert advises against all but essential travel to Samoa and American Samoa following Tuesdays tsunami, which has killed at least 100 people and caused extensive damage in the small island nation. The tsunami, with tidal waves up to five yards tall, was triggered by an earthquake that registered between 8.0 and 8.3 on the Richter scale.

Another earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, struck Indonesia early this morning. The quake was centered northwest of Padang in Sumatra. Several hundred miles away in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, people could feel shaking in tall buildings.

In the wake of this seismic activity, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a regional tsunami watch for India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

People walk among a scene of devastation following a powerful quake, in Pago Pago village, on American Samoa Wednesday, 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

September 30, 2009

Disaster officials rushed food, medicine and a temporary morgue to the Samoas on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake unleashed a tsunami that flattened villages and swept cars and people out to sea. (Sept. 30)