Samoa Earthquake and Tsunami of September 29, 2009
August 22, 2018
By Steven Baldridge, Hermann Fritz, Costas Synolakis, Jose Borrero, Emile Okal, Robert Weiss, Patrick Lynett, Vasily Titov, Bruce Jaffe, Spyros Foteinis, I-Chi Chan, Philip L.-F. Liu, Jennifer Donahue, Michael J. Olsen, Lori Dengler, Kate Long, Jeff Brandt, Heather Lazrus, and Lesley Ewing.
January 2010, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
Multiple reconnaissance teams traveled to Samoa in October and November 2009 and contributed to the preparation of this report that includes seismology aspects, tsunami field surveys, structural damage, and community impacts. The research, publication and distribution of this report were funded by the EERI Learning from Earthquakes Project.