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Another 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 o
by bufferoverflow 8y ago
Another 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