A powerful Pacific Ocean earthquake has spawned towering tsunami waves that swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and killing more than 60 people. Waves were reported as high as 20ft. Tsunami warnings were placed on locations all around the Pacific Ocean including Japan, Hawaii, New Zealand and the West Coast of the US.

Why are there so many natural disasters recently such as Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan and Typhoon Ondoy (aka ketsana) in the Philippines?

Tsunami Strikes American Samoa After 8.3-Magnitude Quake