The apocalyptic wave, which reached up to 1,720 feet (524 metres) high, smashed through the narrow fjord of Lituya Bay after a 7.8 earthquake struck a nearby tectonic boundary called the ...

What is the largest possible tsunami? The highest tsunami ever recorded occurred in Lituya Bay, Southeastern Alaska. In July 1958, an earthquake triggered a massive landslide that tumbled into the ...

This mass of rock plunged from an elevation of about 3,000 feet down into the bay. The impact of the rock and debris generated a local tsunami that washed more than 1,700 feet up the ridge on the ...

LITUYA BAY - With every distant roar, be it from Pacific surf crashing into rocks or jets flying overhead, we thought of 1958. That was the year a massive earthquake ...

Lituya Bay, pictured, is the sight of a Friday helicopter crash that resulted in three people missing. As of Saturday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard had rescued one survivor, a 14-year-old boy.

1958: The tallest wave ever recorded — splashing nearly 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building — explodes down Lituya Bay in the Gulf of Alaska. Lituya Bay is a T-shaped fjord on the ...

Satellite image of the Lituya Bay in Alaska. Here some of the world’s largest glaciers have been ... More melting since the end of the Little Ice Age, influencing earthquakes in the region.

Unlike during the Lituya Bay tsunami -- during which three anchored boats were sunk by or rode atop a 100-foot wall of water -- no fishermen were in Taan Bay at the time of the slide.

One of the prettiest places in Southeast Alaska has felt some of nature's most violent behavior. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 miles southeast of Yakutat and 40 miles west of Glacier ...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search on Sunday for three missing people from a helicopter crash in the frigid waters near Lituya Bay, about 116 miles (187 km) northwest of Juneau, Alaska.