At least 82 people have been killed - reportedly including a British child - after a Pacific Ocean earthquake sent a tsunami into the Samoan islands.
Destruction in Pago Plaza in American Samoa
Cars and people were swept out to sea by the fast-churning waters, as survivors fled to higher ground.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in the Samoan tsunami."
A two-year-old British child had earlier been reported missing on Samoa. Sources now say the youngster has been found dead.
Stephen Rogers, the UK's honorary consul on the island, said the child's parents were receiving consular assistance.
Two Australians, including a six-year-old girl, were also among the dead, officials said.
Signs of devastation were everywhere, with a large boat washed onto the edge of a road and floodwaters swallowing up vehicles and homes.
The 8.3 magnitude quake struck about 125 miles from Samoa, a South Pacific island nation of 180,000 people located almost halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii.
The quake's epicentre was even closer to neighbouring American Samoa, a US territory of about 65,000 people.
Four 15 to 20ft-high waves hit the island, reaching up to a mile inland, according to National Park of American Samoa's Mike Reynolds.
The quake hit off the islands' coast
Hampered by power and communications outages, officials are still struggling to determine damage and casualties.
Samoan police commissioner Lilo Maiava said 63 deaths had been confirmed.
But he added that officials were still searching the devastated areas, so the number of deaths might rise soon.
Hundreds of injured were being treated by health workers, Mr Maiava added.
At least 19 people were killed on American Samoa, officials there said.
Governor Togiola Tulafono, who was in Honolulu for a conference, told reporters more victims may be found when rescuers reach areas that are inaccessible by roads.
There were unconfirmed reports of at least five more people dead in the island nation of Tonga, west of the Samoan islands.
An Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, 2004, which killed about 230,000 people across 11 countries, is the worst on record.
