"Miraculously, it only killed five people.” ...
No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...
In 1958, a remote bay in Alaska witnessed the tallest tsunami ever recorded—a jaw-dropping 1,720 feet high. Triggered by a massive earthquake and landslide, this wave would have swallowed the Empire ...
The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...