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In June 2023, Samoa was hit by heavy floods. [1] Savaiʻi was the most affected region with widespread power outages and damaged roads and bridges. [1] [2] Homes were destroyed in Saipipi, [3] and floodwaters reached a meter deep in Sapapaliʻi. [4] The floods were a result of heavy rain, [1] [5] with 300mm of rain falling in 24 hours. [2]
New Zealand’s Navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on Sunday creating a potential environmental disaster in waters used for ...
Dozens of cities along the US coastline are sinking at alarming rates, leaving them far more exposed to devastating flooding from sea level rise than previously thought, scientists reported ...
The Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole is a sinkhole near Sedona, Arizona on the Soldier Pass Trail in the Coconino National Forest. Formed in the late 1880s, It is one of the at least seven sinkholes surrounding the city. [3] The sinkhole is about 660 ft (200 m) deep, but enters a cave that adds 180 ft (55 m), for a total of 840 ft (260 m). [2]
It was established as Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary on April 29, 1986, [6] it is thought to be home to the greatest biodiversity of aquatic species of all the marine sanctuaries. [2] [4] and then expanded and renamed in 2012. The American Samoa archipelago is located in the mid-south Pacific Ocean, halfway between Hawaii and New ...
Apr. 14—In a letter to the U.S. Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in September, American Samoa's Gov. Lemanu Mauga wrote that "fishing prohibitions not only weaken U.S. fisheries but also ...
Tonga Trench south of the Samoa Islands and north of New Zealand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami killed more than 170 people in the Samoa Islands and Tonga. The M8.1 submarine earthquake took place in the region at 06:48:11 local time on September 29, 2009 (17:48:11 UTC, September 29), followed by smaller aftershocks. [27]
The National Park Service describes the National Park of American Samoa as “a world of sights, sounds, and experiences that you will find in no other national park in the United States.”