The Pacific tsunami has brought tragic news for many.
34 hours after the waves struck the Samoan islands and Tonga, there are bodies in the ocean and some are buried under sand and debris in Samoa as this bulletin goes to air.
Samoa's disaster management office said more than 32 thousand people have been affected in some way by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck in the Pacific Ocean yesterday.
The office puts the confirmed deaths at 83, though it expects that will rise.
The main hospital in Apia said among the bodies it received were those of a two-month old baby and a 102 year old woman.
In neighbouring American Samoa, 24 people have perished and seven people died in Tonga.
Tonga has now confirmed nine deaths while three people are still missing following three big waves that moved 600 metres inland in the island of Niuatoputapu.
Officials estimate that about 1,600 could be affected by the disaster in Tonga.
Meanwhile dozens of aftershocks are rocking islands in the South Pacific after yesterday's undersea quake churned up tsunamis that have left an estimated 150 people dead in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.
Villagers are wiped out and tourist resorts flattened.
And there are reports of widespread looting in Southern Samoa.
In Samoa's South, Sea Breeze resort owner, Wendy Booth said she has hired extra security guards, and other resort owners said locals, some of them left destitute were stealing alcohol, fittings and anything saleable.
The loss is immeasurable and indescribable for many.
This is UN worker, Mikaele Maiada speaking from Samoa. He managed to survive but his family members who were staying near a beach in Lalamanu have all perished.
Another Samoan woman who managed to flee the destructive waves and flew to Australia said it is so sad what has happened as many young children also died in the disaster.
She spoke about a woman who ran to save her children when she noticed the waves violently coming to the coast.
Back home, there is confirmation today that there was an earthquake felt in the Yasawas just a few days before the high magnitude quake in Tonga in March this year while another earthquake was recorded in the Yasawas just days before the 8.3 magnitude earthquake near American Samoa yesterday morning.
The information has been revealed after Fijivillage News received calls from some workers in Yasawa who are concerned and asked whether the quakes they felt are linked to the major earthquakes in Tonga and American Samoa.
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There is confirmation today that there was an earthquake felt in the Yasawas just a few days before the high magnitude quake in Tonga in March this year while another earthquake was recorded in the Yasawas just days before the 8.3 magnitude earthquake near American Samoa yesterday morning.
The information has been revealed after Fijivillage received calls from some workers in the Yasawas who are concerned and asked whether the quakes they felt are linked to the major earthquakes in Tonga and American Samoa.
Senior seismologist Lasarusa Vuetibau has now confirmed to us that there was a quake in the Yasawa area last Friday.
We have now ascertained through Vuetibau that the quake in the Yasawa group at about 11:30pm last Friday may be linked to the major earthquake in American Samoa.
Vuetibau also confirmed that there was a quake in the Yasawa group in March this year, just days before the major quake in Tonga which resulted in a tsunami warning for Fiji and other Pacific island countries.
We asked Vuetibau why the people of Fiji were not informed about the earthquakes in the Yasawas, he said they did not see it as life threatening.
We also spoke to a scientist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, Stuart Weinstein.
He told Fijivillage from Hawaii that the earthquakes in the Yasawas may have been foreshocks and there could be a link to the larger quakes in Tonga and American Samoa.
Meanwhile, Samoa's disaster management office said more than 32,000 people have been affected in some way by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck in the Pacific Ocean yesterday.
The office puts the confirmed deaths at 83, though it expects that will rise.
The main hospital in Apia said among the bodies it received were those of a two-month old baby and a 102 year old woman.
In neighbouring American Samoa, 24 people have perished and 7 people died in Tonga.
Dozens of aftershocks are rocking islands in the South Pacific after yesterday's undersea quake churned up tsunamis that has left an estimated 1people dead in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.
Villagers are wiped out and tourist resorts flattened.
In the village of Siumu, the Coconut Resort is absolutely annihilated. A boat sits on top of what was left of a restaurant, people are just walking through the rubbish, there is nothing left.
The small huts people holiday in are trashed, bamboo sheds smashed, air conditioners ripped out of the wall.
