Lessons for a destabilising planet: insights from the 2009 South Pacific earthquake-tsunami disaster
- Written by Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
The South Pacific was rocked by two nearly simultaneous earthquakes and a devastating tsunami.AAP Image/Tamara McLean
Just before 7am on September 29, 2009, a magnitude 8 earthquake struck the sea floor in the central South Pacific, about 190kms south of Samoa. It was exactly the sort of earthquake – in fact, it was two almost simultaneous...