I noted the post below about the accuracy of the tsunami surge. This is a quote from an affiliate station's observations during broadcast:

Joey Cummings is the general manager of a television station in American Samoa. He was filling in for a colleague Tuesday morning as the ground beneath him started to shake. Just minutes later, he was watching the Pacific Ocean rise to his second-story window.

"It was the most intense earthquake I have ever experienced," Cummings told "The Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith on the phone. "It just kept going, and just wouldn't stop."

Four tsunami waves 15 to 20 feet high roared ashore on American Samoa, reaching up to a mile inland, Mike Reynolds, superintendent of the National Park of American Samoa, was quoted as saying by a parks service spokeswoman.
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Link below

• CBS Samoa Quake Update