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The Governor of American Samoa, Togiola Tulafono, speaks at a news conference concerning the earthquake and tsunami that hit American Samoa, at the American Samoan Government Office in Honolulu, Hawaii September 29, 2009. A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday. A Pacific-wide tsunami warning was issued after a huge 8.0 magnitude undersea quake off American Samoa, with reports of a small tsunami reaching New Zealand and rising sea levels in several South Pacific island nations.