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The tallest wave ever recorded was a local tsunami, triggered by an earthquake and rockfall, in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958. The wave crashed against the opposite shoreline and ran upslope to an elevation of 1720 feet, removing trees and vegetation the entire way.
The first megatsunami to be documented in detail in Indonesia remains one of the largest tsunamis on record. On February 17, 1674, an earthquake struck the Maluku Islands in the Banda Sea.
The biggest tsunami ever recorded: Taller than 500 meters. Tsunamis, large waves that emerge when earthquakes displace a large volume of water, can be terrifying. They can pose huge threats...
The first megatsunami to be meticulously documented in Indonesia remains one of the most biggest tsunamis ever recorded. An earthquake struck the Maluku Islands in the Banda Sea on February...
On July 9th, 1958, the Fairweather fault slipped, triggering an earthquake that led to the largest tsunami ever recorded: the Lituya Bay megatsunami.
The event at Lituya Bay still stands as one of the tallest tsunami waves known to science. The photo above, taken in 1958 after the tsunami, shows the ring of damage around much of the bay. Evidence of the cataclysmic wave is still visible from space more than 60 years later.
It caused significant geologic changes in the region, including areas that experienced uplift and subsidence. It also caused a rockfall in Lituya Bay that generated a wave with a maximum height of 1,720 feet – the world’s largest recorded tsunami.
This is the largest and most significant megatsunami in modern times; it forced a re-evaluation of large-wave events and the recognition of impact events, rockfalls, and landslides as causes of very large waves.
The resultant wave was not just a tsunami but the largest tsunami ever recorded, a megatsunami. At an estimated 1,720 feet high at its highest, it would have dwarfed every building in...
The resulting tsunamis were only 32-64 feet (pdf). Still, those waves swallowed up a big enough chunk of the coast of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark that they helped turn Britain into...