1. Recent Environmental Events AOS/Geogr/IES 121 9/30/2009

2. Australian dust storms September 23, 2009 Luna Park. Photo: Miro Bzduch, smh.com.au reader http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/national/dust-turns-sydney-sky-red/20090923-g0tw.html?selectedImage=52

3. The scene in Wattle Grove, NSW. Photo: Jacob Pogson, smh.com.au reader People exercising at Coogee Beach. Photo: Peter Rae

5. South Pacific tsunami kills nearly 100 people APIA, Samoa - A massive tsunami hurled by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing Wednesday. The toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-churning water for higher ground on the South Pacific islands and remained huddled there hours after the quake, with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn Tuesday. The quake was centered about 125 miles from Samoa, an island nation of 180,000 people located about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii. It was about 120 miles from neighboring American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people. Raj Borsellino / Reuters A destroyed structure is seen among debris near a church following a tsunami in the village of Leone, American Samoa. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33075304/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?GT1=43001

6. Tsunami in December 2004 killed ~ 240,000 in 11 countries Sri Lanka (USGS)

7. Tsunami in December 2004 killed ~ 240,000 in 11 countries Sri Lanka (USGS) Photo courtesy DigitalGlobe Beach damage in KalutaraDigitalGlobe

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