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In 1914, a 200ft wave at Trinidad, California (2014)
- curtis 8y agoYou might also find this article about "One-Hundred-Foot Wednesday" interesting: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/DESPERATE-RACE-FOR-SURVIVAL-RIDING-FOR-THEIR-2652731.php https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/DESPERATE-RACE-FOR-SU...
- jdcarr 8y agoAn amusing little sentence to end on: > Event will be cancelled if hazardous weather conditions are predicted.
- pasta 8y ago60.96 meters
- bufferoverflow 8y agoAnother crazy wave happened in Lituya Bay 60 years ago. 520 meters tall (1710 feet). Apparently a father and a son survived it, there's an interview with them on YouTube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami
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- toomanybeersies 8y ago> the sudden displacement of water resulted in a megatsunami that washed out trees to a maximum elevation of 520 metres That reads to me that it ran uphill to an altitude of 520 metres, rather than that the wave itself was a 520m tall wall of water.
- lucozade 8y agoIndeed. The same article gives a height of 30m for the wave.
- davidw 8y agoReminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
- skookum 8y agoThere is a fjord in Norway that is considered to be at high risk of experiencing a landslide-driven tsunami of similar magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geirangerfjord#Rock_slides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geirangerfjord#Rock_slides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmfs7LesQos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmfs7LesQos
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoThe Really Big One: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
- abhiminator 8y agoCool fact -- this article's author won the Pulitzer for best feature writing in 2016. [0] That said, Cascadia subduction zone is one of the most underrated threat to the western sea-board of the entire North American continent, imo. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Feature_Writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Feature_Wri...
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoI wonder what the effect would be on the Japanese coast? I live only a mile away from the ocean in Japan. From a similar quake in 1700 it looks like it would take 8 hrs to get here so I’d probably have plenty of time to evacuate. Perhaps I should be more worried about quakes off the coast here instead.
- abhiminator 8y ago>I’d probably have plenty of time to evacuate I agree. You'd have enough time to figure out your contingency and evacuation given your location. Hawaii would certainly be hit first thereby giving folks living in Japan like yourself plenty of forewarning.
- watersb 8y agoPeter Watts' science-fiction novel "Starfish" is a story of numerous, cascading distaters, one of which is a serious earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Short description and links to commercial vendors on Goodreads [0], and the complete novel available as an eBook is available from the author [1]. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66479.Starfish https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66479.Starfish [1] http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
- Jacq5 8y agoWe kinda have big weather fluctuations these days (Referring to global warming). How long till we have record wave fluctuations? You better get your surfboards ready.
- Retric 8y agoUnlikely for the wave to be anywhere near this tall. Rather a smaller wave hit the cliff face and water was pushed over the top.
- petee 8y agoand it disregards the actual sea level during the storm, as that could have significantly lowered the base height
- XalvinX 8y agoOf course it is unlikely but the history of the world is long and statistically it is a certainty.
- Retric 8y agoI mean unlikely as in it's a poor fit for the observations. If the waves where actually that tall you would see very different effects. For reference their are cool photos showing giant sprays around lighthouses from minor waves.