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The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. The submarine earthquake occurred in an extensional environment and had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). It was the largest earthquake of 2009.
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September 29 is the 272nd day of the year ... 1934 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009) [156] 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, ...
Earthquakes in 2009 resulted in 1,853 fatalities. The 2nd Sumatra earthquake caused an estimated 1,117 deaths to that island, while other majors events struck Italy and Costa Rica . Also notable, the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami registered an 8.1 on the moment magnitude scale , the most powerful earthquake in 2009.
2009 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.
September 2: Protesters at a health care reform town hall meeting in West Hartford, Connecticut September 29: The tsunami from an earthquake is caught on film in Pago Pago in American Samoa. September 2 – The Justice Department announces the largest health care fraud settlement in history, $2.3 billion, involving Pfizer. [73]
September 2009 was the ninth month of that common year. The month, ... In rugby union, South Africa defeat New Zealand 32-29 to win the 2009 Tri Nations Series.
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