Residents and visitors in Samoa describe the terror of knowing what would be next after a massive quake rocked the tiny island nation

Salamasina Taufua was basking in the sun yesterday watching her three young children playing on the sand when a tsunami swept all three away.

Read here for the latest news following the Samoan earthquake and tsunami.

Nine New Zealanders are now confirmed injured, and one dead, in today's Samoan tsunami.

At least one NZer is dead and three injured, amongst thousands affected by today's earthquake and tsunami in Samoa.

Reports of scores dead, cars thrown into the ocean and fish on the ground following this morning's magnitude 8.3 earthquake.

The Ministry of Civil Defence is warning people to continue to stay away from beaches even though a tsunami warning has been downgraded.

Reports of cars thrown into the ocean and fish on the ground following this morning's magnitude 8.3 earthquake.

There are unconfirmed reports that 40 people from the Samoan village of Lalomanu - on the south-eastern end of the island of Upolu - have been killed.

Samoan residents have been evacuated from the coast to higher ground after a magnitude 8.3 quake struck this morning, followed by a tsunami.

New Zealand is ready to offer assistance to Indonesia after a large earthquake killed at least 46 people and injured hundreds more.

A New Zealand man caught up in yesterday's powerful earthquake in Indonesia tells of his experience.