Recent Environmental Events

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Recent Environmental Events

• AOS/Geogr/IES 121
• 9/30/2009

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Australian dust storms September 23, 2009
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Luna Park. Photo Miro Bzduch, smh.com.au reader
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People exercising at Coogee Beach. Photo Peter
Rae
The scene in Wattle Grove, NSW. Photo Jacob
Pogson, smh.com.au reader
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South Pacific tsunami kills nearly 100 people

• APIA, Samoa - A massive tsunami hurled by a
  powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and
  swept cars and people out to sea, killing at
  least 99 and leaving dozens missing Wednesday.
  The toll was expected to rise.
• Survivors fled the fast-churning water for higher
  ground on the South Pacific islands and remained
  huddled there hours after the quake, with a
  magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn
  Tuesday.
• The quake was centered about 125 miles from
  Samoa, an island nation of 180,000 people located
  about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii. It
  was about 120 miles from neighboring American
  Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000
  people.

Raj Borsellino / Reuters A destroyed structure is
seen among debris near a church following a
tsunami in the village of Leone, American Samoa.
http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33075304/ns/world_news
-asiapacific/?GT143001
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Tsunami in December 2004 killed 240,000 in 11
countries
Sri Lanka (USGS)
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Tsunami in December 2004 killed 240,000 in 11
countries
Photo courtesy DigitalGlobeBeach damage in
Kalutara
Sri Lanka (USGS)
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