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Tsunami animation Samoa 2009 looking west

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
This moving illustration shows what the waves looked like, in relation to the seafloor, when an earthquake caused a tsunami.
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Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the September 29, 2009 M=8.0 outer-rise earthquake between Samoa and Tonga. Viewpoint looks to the west. The first 42 minutes of propagation is shown.

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Public Domain.