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2 Απρ 2023 · 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 Anchorage.
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.
22 Αυγ 2024 · At about 5 am local time on 7 August 2024, a large landslide occurred on the rock slopes above Pedersen Lagoon in Alaska, triggering a local tsunami. Whilst this major event is lower profile...
15 Φεβ 2022 · On July 9th, 1958, the Fairweather fault slipped, triggering an earthquake that led to the largest tsunami ever recorded: the Lituya Bay megatsunami.
The Chignik earthquake was very close (about 62 km) to the 22 July 2020 magnitude 7.8 Mw earthquake, and about 145 km from the 19 October 2020 magnitude 7.6 Mw earthquake. The tsunami was observed at Alaskan tide gauges, as well as some Hawaiian and U.S. West Coast tide gauge stations.
13 Ιουλ 2018 · Six years later, the magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake would trigger landslide tsunamis across southern Alaska, accounting for many of the deaths from that earthquake. Miller was not around to study these, as he had drowned on the Kiagna River with a young assistant in 1961.
16 Ιουλ 2023 · A 7.2 magnitude earthquake triggered a brief tsunami advisory for southern Alaska late Saturday, but the advisory was canceled about an hour later, monitoring bodies reported.
