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Wales survive scare to beat Samoa

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Wales held on for an unconvincing victory Friday when they edged Samoa 17-13 at the Millennium Stadium. Leigh Halfpenny scored a first-half try while outside Dan Biggar added 12 points with the boot before Samoa hit back through Seilala Mapasua in the ...

RugbyU: Wales survive scare to beat Samoa

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Wales held on for an unconvincing victory Friday when they edged Samoa 17-13 at the Millennium Stadium. Leigh Halfpenny scored a first-half try while outside Dan Biggar added 12 points with the boot before Samoa hit back through Seilala Mapasua in the ...

Wales aiming for rugby WC marker against Samoa

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Wales will attempt to steal a march on Samoa ahead of the 2011 World Cup with a convincing victory at the Millennium Stadium here on Friday. With the countdown for the next global tournament in New Zealand less than two years away, ...

Samoa unveil familiar line-up for Wales

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

Samoa's side to play Wales at the Millennium Stadium here on Friday will include six English Premiership-based players. London Irish flanker George Stowers captains the team in a pack that features Newcastle lock Filipo Levi and Sale hooker Mahonri Schwalger. In the ...

Strong quake hits Fiji: USGS

AFP Asian Edition 16 days ago

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji late Monday but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists said. The quake struck at 10:44 pm (1044 GMT) at a depth ...

US seismologists report 6.0 earthquake near Samoa

AP News 42 days ago

US Geological Survey reports earthquake measured at 6.0 near Samoa An earthquake with magnitude 6.0 has struck in the Pacific near Samoa, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The government seismologists said the quake was at a depth of 6.2 miles and occurred ...

USGS reports 6.0 magnitude earthquake off tsunami-hit Samoa

AFP Global Edition 42 days ago

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Thursday, seismologists reported, two weeks after a violent quake caused a tsunami that devastated Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa. No immediate tsunami alert was issued by the ...

Magnitude 6.0 quake hits off Samoa: USGS

Reuters US Online Report Top News 42 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong magnitude 6.0 quake struck in the ocean off Western Samoa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Wednesday, less than two weeks after the Pacific islands were hit by a series of tsunamis sparked by a powerful 8.0 ...

New Zealand girl honoured for warning of tsunami

AFP Asian Edition 42 days ago

A 10-year-old New Zealand girl was honoured Wednesday for recognising the approach of Samoa's deadly tsunami and running up and down a beach warning other holidaymakers and local residents. New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defence presented Wellington schoolgirl Abby Wutzler with a ...

A 6.4-magnitude quake hits South Pacific

AFP Asian Edition 44 days ago

A 6.4-magnitude quake hit the Santa Cruz islands in the South Pacific on Monday, US seismologists said, but there was no immediate warning of a tsunami. The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) about 355 kilometres north ...

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