Mukati memaawa 24 pashure pokudengenyeka kwepasi kukuru kwakauraya vanhu 8.3 muSamoa neAmerican Samoa kusvika pari zvino, kumwe kudengenyeka kwenyika kune simba kwakaitika. Panguva ino kunyoresa 119-magnitude pachikero cheRichter, kudengenyeka kwenyika kune simba kwakaitika kubva kumhenderekedzo yeSumatra uye kusvika zvino kwakauraya vanhu vanosvika makumi manomwe nevaviri uye kwakavharira zviuru pasi pemarara nemarara, maererano nevakuru veIndonesia.
Kudengenyeka kwakaitika kuSumatra kunonzi kwakatumira masaisai anotyisa kunyika dzakavakidzana neSingapore neMalaysia uye kwakakonzera kutya kwenguva pfupi kweimwe tsunami kunyika dzakatenderedza Indian Ocean. Nyevero yetsunami yakatanga kuziviswa kunharaunda iyi, asi yakamiswa maawa gare gare.
US Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center geophysicist Randy Baldwin akatsinhira kuti kudengenyeka kwenyika kweSamoa neIndonesia kwanga kusina hukama. "Pane chinhambwe chinoparadzanisa kudengenyeka kuviri kwakasiyana, hapana hukama," akaudza vatori venhau. "Ingori dunhu rinoshanda zvakanyanya kutenderera kwePacific Ocean."
Sekureva kwaBaldwin, kudengenyeka uku kwakatanga mamaira makumi matatu neshanu kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweguta rePadang kumaodzanyemba kweSumatra. Nzvimbo iyi iri munzira imwechete yakakonzera tsunami huru yeIndia Ocean muna 31 iyo yakauraya vanhu vanodarika mazana maviri nemakumi matatu ezviuru.
Mukuparadzana, kumwe kudengenyeka kwarova Peru neBolivia. Kudengenyeka kwe 6.3- magnitude kwakaitika kumaodzanyemba kwakadziva kumabvazuva kwePeru, pedyo neguta guru reBolivia La Paz, US Geological Survey yakashuma. Maererano nemishumo, kudengenyeka, zvakadzika pamakiromita 160.3, kwakaitika anenge makiromita zana kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweLa Paz.
