The expert said back in 2020: “The most noteworthy of these tsunamis was in 1958, when a landslide entered the Lituya Bay Fiord in Glacier Bay and generated a wave that went 1,700 feet up the ...

The result was the tallest wave ever recorded, a 1,719-foot mega-tsunami that roared across the bay. Eyewitnesses reported a loud 'boom' as ice-filled waves swept away lighthouses and stripped ...

The result was the tallest wave ever recorded, a 1,719-foot mega-tsunami that roared across the bay. ... Like the Cumbre Vieja scenario, Lituya Bay's mega-tsunami was driven by a landslide.

That’s minuscule, a ripple in a toilet bowl, compared to the Lituya Bay mega-tsunami. But, of course, that wave wasn’t exactly a real wave. Nor could it be physically surfed by any human.

Histories of Alaska: The wave that struck Lituya Bay on July 9, 1958, was an estimated 1,720 feet at its highest point. Sections Alaska News Politics Opinions Sports Talk to us Opens in new window ...

The mega-tsunami they created would have been thousands of times more powerful than Lituya Bay. Underwater lies the debris of ancient Hawaiian collapses. Whole chunks of the islands have fallen ...

On July 9, 1958, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused 90 million tons of rock and ice to drop into the deep water at the head of Lituya Bay, giving way to the extreme wave. Close Ad Before You Leave ...

A mega-tsunami can be spotted due to the towering waves (Image: Getty Images) Experts stressed the fault line has a 15% chance of making a magnitude 8.0 or greater earthquake within the next 50 years.

With a rumbling wave up to a third of a mile high, thundering across the ocean at hundreds of miles per hour, the sheer destructive power of a mega tsunami is difficult to imagine.