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Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.
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Tsunami Inundation Mapping. Coastal Alaska lives with the most serious tsunami risk in the United States. Historically, tsunamis generated by earthquakes in Alaska have caused damage and loss of life along Alaska coastlines, the West Coast of the contiguous United States and across the Pacific.
The tallest wave ever recorded was a local tsunami, triggered by an earthquake and rockfall, in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958. The wave crashed against the opposite shoreline and ran upslope to an elevation of 1720 feet, removing trees and vegetation the entire way.
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...
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...
These have produced some of the largest tsunami waves recorded and, unlike earthquake-induced tsunamis, they can strike with no warning. The tsunami travel time maps for various historical events can be accessed here.
5 Οκτ 2020 · The Specter of a Mega-Tsunami in Alaska. Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.
