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22 Νοε 2020 · 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.
Rockfall. Damage from the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami can be seen in this oblique aerial photograph of Lituya Bay, Alaska as the lighter areas at the shore where trees have been stripped away. The red arrow shows the location of the landslide, and the yellow arrow shows the location of the high point of the wave sweeping over the headland.
Detail Map: Lituya Bay, Alaska. Lituya Bay is an ice-scoured tidal inlet on the northeast shore of the Gulf of Alaska. It is about seven miles long (11.3 kilometers) and up to two miles wide (3.2 kilometers).
One of the tallest tsunami waves known to science slammed this Alaskan bay in 1958. This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Lituya Bay’s Apocalyptic Wave. NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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.
9 Ιουλ 2019 · Google Maps. The earthquake occurred along this fault, triggering a rockfall from the mountains. Estimated 40 million cubic yards of rock fell for 3,000 feet hitting the Lituya Glacier. Ice and...
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.
