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27 Ιουλ 2021 · Discover the record-breaking tsunami that towered over Lituya Bay, Alaska in July 1958, standing taller than the Empire State Building at over 500 meters hig...
Large waves struck Tafjord and Fjørå. At Tafjord, the last and largest wave was 17 metres (56 ft) tall and struck at an estimated speed of 160 kilometres per hour (100 mph), flooding the town for 300 metres (328 yd) inland and killing 23 people.
The giant wave runup of 1,720 feet (520 m) at the head of the Bay and the subsequent huge wave along the main body of Lituya Bay which occurred on July 9, 1958, were caused primarily by an enormous subaerial rockfall into Gilbert Inlet at the head of Lituya Bay, triggered by dynamic earthquake ground motions along the Fairweather Fault.
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.
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.
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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.
