Samoa Tsunami - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:17:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Samoa Tsunami - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Samoa remembers tsunami https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/10/04/samoa-remembers-tsunami/ Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:30:40 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=50368

Memorial services have been held to commemorate the 29 September 2009 tsunami which ripped through villages, homes and businesses, killing 143 people in Samoa, 34 in American Samoa and 9 in Tonga. Radio New Zealand International reports that memorial church services were held, in the coastal villages of Upolu and people marched in black and Read more

Samoa remembers tsunami... Read more]]> Memorial services have been held to commemorate the 29 September 2009 tsunami which ripped through villages, homes and businesses, killing 143 people in Samoa, 34 in American Samoa and 9 in Tonga.

Radio New Zealand International reports that memorial church services were held, in the coastal villages of Upolu and people marched in black and white for those whose lives were taken four years ago.

At Leone village, in American Samoa two elementary school students and seven other residents died in the in the disaster, 100 lanterns were to be in the ocean Sunday to remember those who passed away.

"Each lantern will bear individual prayers and personal moments to be remembered of their beloved family members and friends that were taken in the tsunami tragedy," said Ipu Avegalio-Lefiti, one of the village organizers.

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It was two years on Thursday since the Samoa tsunami. A Church leader in Samoa says the sudden loss of life from the tsunami will always be remembered. The Secretary General of the Samoa Council of Churches, the Reverend Ma'auga Motu, says a ceremony will be held on Sunday to commemorate the dead. The Reverend Read more

Samoa Tsunami - two years on... Read more]]> It was two years on Thursday since the Samoa tsunami. A Church leader in Samoa says the sudden loss of life from the tsunami will always be remembered.

The Secretary General of the Samoa Council of Churches, the Reverend Ma'auga Motu, says a ceremony will be held on Sunday to commemorate the dead.

The Reverend Motu says the memorial service on Sunday will be held at the government's burial site at Tafaigata. Some villages conducted their own ceremonies on Thursday to remember the the dead.

"The victims of the tsunami will never be removed from the memories and from the minds of our people. And their death was a very sudden ache in my country, it was a very sudden suffering that came into the country. And to take a hundred and more people, it's too much for us," he said.

On 29 September 2009 a rare double earthquake occurred in the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where continental plates meet in the Earth's crust. Scientists believe the simultaneous earthquakes - measuring 8.0 and 7.9 - occurred under the ocean floor about 70km apart, with one "hiding" the other. 186 people died when the tsunami hit Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

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