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On September 29, 2009, the 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills over 189 and injures hundreds. The year's #1 song was "Boom Boom Pow" by The Black Eyed Peas. Shaylee Mansfield, Valentina Tronel, Maddox Batson would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · September 29, 2009
The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Tonga–Kermadec subduction zone. 1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). It was the largest earthquake of 2009.
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2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
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Natural disaster in the southern Pacific Ocean
The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Tonga–Kermadec subduction zone. 1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). It was the largest earthquake of 2009.
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