Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami

		IMAGE: Tsunami eyewitnesses are interviewed by Professors Costas Synolakis of USC and Hermann Fritz of Georgia Tech to evaluate warning, evacuation and survival strategies on Manono Island, Samoa. Click here for more information.

Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month.