WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa went to the polls Friday in a critical election that could decide the future of the Pacific Island nation’s first woman leader, who called the vote after her government ...

For roughly 1,700 years, Polynesian seafarers stopped at Samoa and Tonga. Then, in what became one of history’s most remarkable bursts of migration, they pushed east across the Pacific and settled ...

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on the surface. Telltale hot spot tracks form as tectonic plates move over these ...

On Monday night, the palm-tree-lined coast of Samoa looked like paradise. But by early Tuesday morning, residents and tourists alike had an unpleasant awakening. People were literally shaken out of ...

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A huge undersea earthquake set off tsunami waves resulting in at least 34 deaths in the Samoan Islands, officials said. The death toll was uncertain hours ...

Beaches, rainforests, waterfalls, vibrant coral reefs, inactive volcanoes (the last eruption was an underwater one in 1973). When it comes to the ideal South Pacific island, the Independent State of ...

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A massive emergency effort was underway Wednesday in the Samoan Islands after a tsunami killed more than 100 people and erased entire villages, officials ...

The 2009, magnitude-8.1 Samoa earthquake dealt a great deal of damage to the Samoan Islands: Tsunami waves as high as 14 meters (46 feet) wiped out multiple villages, claiming nearly 200 lives and ...

One of Tesla’s earliest microgrid projects with Powerpacks was deployed in American Samoa and now the company deployed two bigger systems in order to help the country of Samoa transition their energy ...