82 Dead, Villages 'Wiped Out' in Samoa Tsunami

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The quake, with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn 120 miles from American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people.

Four tsunami waves 15 to 20 feet high roared ashore soon afterward, reaching up to a mile inland, Mike Reynolds, superintendent of the National Park of American Samoa, was quoted as saying by a parks service spokeswoman.

Hampered by power and communications outages, officials hours later struggled to determine damage and casualties. At least 63 people were killed in Samoa, police confirmed, and 19 others were killed in American Samoa -- but officials acknowledged the death toll seemed sure to rise.