Earthquakes+LZ

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On September 29, 2009 an earthquake hit Samoa at 8.0 M. About 129 people die by the earthquake. in Samoa 77 people were reported dead and 150 injured, America Samoa at least 31 people were reported dead and 50 reported injured, and in Tonga 9 people were reported dead and four injured. The great earthquake generating 15ft. tsunami waves in some areas of the Samoa Islands. Several countries have been hit by the tsunami including: Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, the Cook Islands, and Japan. There has been a lot of earthquakes throughout 2000-2009. There were at least 1,783 deaths worldwide resulted from earthquake activity in 2009. The deadliest earthquake of the year was a magnitude 7.5 event that killed approximately 1,117 people in southern Sumatra, Indonesia on Sept. 30. the Sept. 30 Indonesian earthquake occurred a day after the year's strongest earthquake, a magnitude 8.1 on Sept. 29 in the Samoa Islands region. Overall, earthquakes took the lives of people in 15 countries on four continents during 2009, including Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Costa Rica, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Honduras, Japan, Malawi, Samoa, South Africa and Tonga, as well as the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Earthquakes injured people in 11 additional countries, including the mainland United States, where a magnitude 4.4 earthquake on May 2 injured one person in the Los Angeles area. The past year marked the five-year anniversary of the magnitude 9.1 Sumatra-Andaman Island earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004. That quake and tsunami killed 227,898 people, which is the fourth largest casualty toll for earthquakes and the largest toll for a tsunami in recorded history.