Insights on the 2009 South Pacific tsunami in Samoa and Tonga from field surveys and numerical simulations

a School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah, GA 31407, USA b ASR Limited, Raglan 3225, New Zealand c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA d Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chanea 73100, Greece e Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA f Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA g Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, WA, USA h Pacific Science Center, US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, USA i Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA j School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA