BBC News ReportA tsunami struck the low-lying island of Fongafale in Tuvalu today in the aftermath of a deep-sea earthquake off the coast. The entire island remains underwater with several villages and a resort submerged by the flood. Casualties are reported to be in the thousands and no survivors have been found.
Military vessels from Australia and New Zealand converged on the area to help the Tuvaluan police recover bodies from the waves, but the operation has been hampered by ongoing tremors in the region and stormy weather conditions.
Geologists cannot explain why there has been such an increase in earthquakes and natural disasters in the last month.
“After the San Francisco Bay Area evacuation and now this South Pacific disaster, plans are underway to move people out of possible da
