On Tuesday, a magnitude 8.0 quake-triggered tsunami killed at least 111 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga.
Youth participants currently confirmed are from Pacific Island communities including Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, New Zealand, Niue, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau and Vanuatu.
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Delegates represented indigenous people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Tokelau, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Niue, Cook Islands, Hawai'i, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Samoa.
In the first phase, the exercise will consist of ten different scenarios to allow each participating country to respond to a regional or local tsunami following a powerful earthquake off the shores of Russia, Ryukyu Islands, west and east of the Philippines, Vanuatu, Tonga, Chile, Ecuador, Central America, and Aleutian Islands.
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At least 129 people are known to have died on the island as a result of the disaster, while a further 40 people were killed on neighbouring islands American Samoa and Tonga.
They include 22 people killed in American Samoa, 139 in Samoa and seven in Tonga, according to officials on the islands.
His Digicel Group now operates in dozens of Caribbean islands, Honduras, Haiti, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea.
And I want to thank President Zedkaia of the Marshall Islands, as well as King George Tupou from Tonga, who is here.
While anthropological opinion varies, it is thought that settlers from Southeast Asia arrived in the Marquesas Islands around 300 AD, although other historical evidence has suggested tribes from Samoa and Tonga sailed into the region before 100 AD.
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