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Tsunami run-up heights on Tutuila, 2009

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Plots around islands show the heights of tsunami waves as measured by a team of scientists.
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Varying tsunami runup heights (elevations of farthest points inland reached by tsunami) on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Bruce Jaffe, USGS, was part of an international tsunami survey team (ITST) that measured runup heights on October 5-6, 2009. Values are not tide-corrected, and the scale of the figure precludes showing all details of observed spatial variations. Locations of some of the higher runups are shown.

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