Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

On July 9, 1958, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake triggered a colossal landslide in Alaska’s remote Lituya Bay. Around 90 million ...

The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...

No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...

The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...