Unix Timestamp: 1254182400
Tuesday, September 29. 2009, 12:00:00 AM UTC

At least 40 people are killed as Typhoon Ketsana makes landfall on Vietnam. //www.ptinews.com/news/306116_Typhoon-Ketsana-kills-31-in-Vietnamofficials (Press Trust of India) //news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/29/content_12131817.htm (Xinhua)

An 8.3-magnitude earthquake triggers a tsunami near the Samoan Islands. Many communities and harbors in Samoa and American Samoa are destroyed, and at least 189 are killed.

An 8.3 magnitude earthquake strikes the Samoa Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 20 in the nation of Samoa and another 14 in American Samoa. //www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2916050620090929 (Reuters) //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8281616.stm (BBC)