More forgotten is the tragic 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and its accompanying megatsunami. Lituya Bay is a seven-mile long, two-mile wide fjord on the southeast coastline of Alaska, roughly a ...

(Or, more informally, megatsunami ... causing no further problems. The 1958 wave was by far the largest to devastate Lituya Bay, but it was only the latest to be documented there by the U.S ...

Lituya Bay, a seven-mile-long ... On July 9, 1958, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake caused a landslide that, in turn, created a megatsunami that killed two people on a fishing boat in the bay.

but a tsunami that big struck Alaska in 1958. The megatsunami remains the tallest ever recorded, but it wasn’t the most destructive as it hit Lituya Bay, a remote spot along the Gulf of Alaska ...

The 1958 wave, however, removed all of the previous evidence and was the largest wave yet. Because of the unique geologic and tectonic conditions of Lituya Bay, such giant waves will undoubtedly ...

Geological evidence, historical testimonies, and even myths suggest that earthquakes followed by megatsunami ... epicenter of the 1958 quake that caused the Lituya Bay tsunami.

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