A landslide last fall caused a giant wave not seen in Alaska since a storied 1958 event in Lituya Bay. After a period of heavy rains, a mountainside near Tyndall Glacier collapsed into a fiord of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wave damage on the south shore of Lituya Bay. (Image credit: U.S. Geological Survey) A handful of people managed to survive the tsunami despite being on boats in the bay when the landslide ...

Adam Bucki operates a raft in the back of Lituya Bay. On the hillside behind are lighter-colored leaves of trees that have grown since a giant wave in 1958 scoured the hillside up to 1,700 feet.

On July 9, 1958, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.7-8.3 triggered an enormous rockfall in a remote bay along the Gulf of Alaska. The seven miles long and two miles narrow Lituya Bay ...

The wave then continued down the 7-mile length of Lituya Bay, ripping out or snapping off trees on either side of the bay at elevations up to 600 feet and then washed over a sand spit and into the ...

In a new article from How Stuff Works, they detail this historic mountain of water.It happened back on July 9th, 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska – a fjord off the Gulf of Alaska. A fjord, just FYI ...

Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7. Over the past week, we recorded ...