On July 9, 1958, Lituya Bay, Alaska, experienced the largest wave ever recorded — a staggering 1,720 feet (524 meters) high! Triggered by a massive landslide, this colossal wave reshaped the landscape and remains a crucial study point for scientists. Learn More: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/largest-wave-ever-recorded.htm?utm_source=facebook | Howstuffworks
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In 1958 at Lituya Bay in southern Alaska, a 7.8 magnitude Earthquake struck the area of Lituya Bay and triggered a sudden collapse of a mountain comprising of at least 30 Million Cubic meters of material that plunged into the bay. The resulting wave forced and splashed its way 1,719 feet up a near mountain peak directly across from the site of collapse. The wave then bounced around through the bay destroying forests up to 700 feet in elevation from the shore. This event is considered the largest
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Watch the waves from the M7.5 Alaska earthquake roll across seismic stations in North America. This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows the motion of the ground as detected on seismometers across North America - each dot is a seismic station and when the ground moves up it turns red and when it moves down it turns blue. Waves generated by an earthquake travel around and through the earth, but they get smaller (attenuate) as they move away from the earthquake location, ju
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