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  2. 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the Fairweather Fault in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is a T-shaped bay with a width of 2 miles (3 km) and a length of 7 miles (11 km). [8] Lituya Bay is an ice-scoured tidal inlet with a maximum depth of 722 feet (220 m). The narrow entrance of the bay has a depth of only 33 feet (10 m). [8]

  3. Lituya Bay - Wikipedia

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    Cenotaph Island in Lituya Bay. The smaller Cascade and Crillon glaciers and the larger Lituya Glacier all spill into Lituya Bay, which is a part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Cenotaph Island is located roughly in the middle of the bay. The entrance of the bay is approximately 500 m (0.31 mi) wide, with a narrow navigable channel. [3]

  4. How West Coast residents should prepare for the threat of a ...

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    “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 opposite side of the fiord ...

  5. File:Clituyarho.webm - Wikipedia

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  6. Megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    A study of Lituya Bay in 1953 concluded that sometime around 1874, perhaps in May 1874, another megatsunami occurred in Lituya Bay in Alaska. Probably occurring because of a large landslide on the south shore of the bay in the Mudslide Creek Valley, the wave had a maximum run-up height of 24 metres (80 ft), flooding the coast of the bay up to ...

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  8. List of tsunamis - Wikipedia

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    Lituya Bay, Alaska: Unknown: On 27 October 1936, a megatsunami occurred in Alaska's Lituya Bay with a maximum breakthrough height of 490 feet (149 m) in Crillon Inlet at the head of the bay. All four eyewitnesses to the wave in Lituya Bay survived and described it as being between 100 and 250 feet (30 and 76 m) high as it traveled across the bay.

  9. ‘You are in danger!’ How San Francisco scrambled to prepare ...

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    Where were you during the great California non-tsunami of December 2024? When an unusually feisty earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area at 10:44 a.m. Thursday, most residents weren't ...