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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 · Some 2 square miles (4 square kilometers) of forest were sheared and swept away by the tsunami waves. One of the causes of the enormous waves in Lituya Bay was that an entire chunk of a mountain peak—estimated to be 2,400 feet by 3,000 feet by 300 feet—broke free from a cliff and dropped 2,000 feet.
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.
11 Μαρ 2011 · The most destructive tsunami in Hawaii occurred on April 1, 1946 after an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale struck the ocean floor off the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Waves...
21 Σεπ 2023 · Tsunami waves from the Aleutians would arrive in Honolulu in about 5 hours. The inset map in the upper right corner shows maximum runups for waves generated by the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake (meters/feet).
Readings of tsunami wave heights at various locations from the 1946, 1952, 1957, 1960 and 1964 Hawaii tsunamis.
According to scientists, the rocks, glaciers, and other debris fell from an altitude of approximately 3,000 feet (914 meters), and the consequences were brutal. The event resulted in the highest wave from a massive tsunami in recorded history.
