PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) – American Samoa’s new emergency warning sirens have sounded its first full system-wide test alarms Thursday as the U.S. territory marks the second anniversary of the deadly 2009 tsunami spawned by a magnitude 8.7 earthquake.
Gov. Togiola Tulafono says Sept. 29, 2009 will always be remembered as the greatest natural disaster in the history of the Samoan people.
Thirty-four people in American Samoa and more than 100 in neighboring Samoa were killed.
Messages blared Thursday in Samoan and English informing residents of the test.
Many have complained that if the system was in place in 2009, fewer people would have died.
Families who lost relatives in the tsunami are holding memorial services at their homes.
The Samoan government is hosting a memorial Sunday at a site where more than 10 are buried.
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