Vaipoa

{{short description|Village in Tonga}}

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Vaipoa is one of three villages on the island of Niuatoputapu in Tonga.[http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/12/04/000356161_20121204005412/Rendered/INDEX/NonAsciiFileName0.txt "ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT"] The World Bank. Retrieved 2013-11-17. The population is 172.{{cite web |url=https://tongastats.gov.to/download/231/2021/5692/census-2021-preliminary-results_dec-2021.pdf |title=PRELIMINARY RESULT TONGA POPULATION CENSUS 2021 |publisher=Tonga Statistics Department |page=5 |date=24 December 2021 |access-date=31 December 2021}}

The other two villages on Niuatoputapu are Hihifo, which is the main village on the island, and Falehau.

Niuatoputapu was extensively damaged in the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami{{Cite web |title=Looking back {{!}} 4 years after devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-anniversary-japan-earthquake-tsunami-pictures-20150311-photogallery.html |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} with a number of fatalities.{{Cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/200993015246541511.html|title=Breaking News, World News and Video from al Jazeera}}

The tsunami followed an earthquake of an 8.0 M_w earthquake in the Samoan Islands region at 06:48:11 local time on 29 September 2009 (17:48:11 UTC).[https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mdbi.php Magnitude 8.0 - SAMOA ISLANDS REGION] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007165801/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mdbi.php |date=7 October 2009 }} Report on [http://www.usgs.gov/aboutusgs/ U.S. Geological Service]'s website. Retrieved online d.d. 5 October 2009.