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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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
13 Ιουλ 2018 · Our tsunami inundation maps include landslide tsunami scenarios for some of Alaska's most at-risk communities, showing which areas are likely to be safe and which are not. Still, living with the danger of megatsunamis is part of the cost of working and playing in one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes.
9 Ιουλ 2019 · Smaller tsunami, with a maximal wave height of 20 feet, were recorded in the Yakutat Bay, Disenchantment Bay, Dry Bay, Glacier Bay, Inian Island, Skagway and Dixon Harbor.
