An earthquake followed by a landslide in 1958 in Alaska’s Lituya Bay generated a wave 100 feet high, the tallest tsunami ever documented. When the wave ran ashore, it snapped trees 1,700 feet ...

524 meters—that’s the staggering height of the wave triggered by a tsunami in Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 9, 1958. While that figure hasn’t been scientifically confirmed, what’s certain is ...