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/ 30 September 2009
A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa, killing possibly more than 100 people.
The Cook Islands’ main island of Rarotonga battened down on Wednesday as Cyclone Percy continued to batter the tiny South Pacific nation. The cyclone, which dropped to category four from the maximum five during the day, passed to the west of the island of Palmerston early on Wednesday.
A state of emergency has been declared in part of the Cook Islands after Cyclone Percy slammed into the region leaving only 10 houses intact in an area home to more than 600 people, authorities said on Tuesday. A spokesperson said all houses on Nassau were "severely damaged or destroyed".
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/ 28 February 2005
Residents of the northern Cook Islands were evacuated from their homes on Sunday as the tiny South Pacific nation was lashed by a ”near direct hit” from the fourth cyclone in the region this month, disaster authorities said. Communications with the island of Pukapuka in the northern Cook Islands were lost on Sunday morning.
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/ 27 February 2005
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tokelau called for food and medical supplies on Saturday after suffering heavy damage from tropical Cyclone Percy. As the powerful storm headed towards American Samoa’s Swains Island, residents on the New Zealand-administered Tokelau islands began counting the cost of the battering from gale-force winds and high seas.
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/ 26 February 2005
Storm warnings were hoisted across the South Pacific on Saturday as Cyclone Percy became the fourth violent storm in a month to hit the region, with the tiny island group of Tokelau directly in its path. Eight other territories were warned to monitor the cyclone’s route closely for any deviation.
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/ 16 February 2005
Samoa appeared to escape the worst of Cyclone Olaf on Wednesday but a top official said it is expected to intensify and approach "super-cyclone" status as it bears down on neighbouring American Samoa and the Cook Islands. Olaf lashed Savai’i, the main island of Samoa, with winds of more than 200kph.