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  2. 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    The Lituya Bay megatsunami caused damage at higher elevations than any other tsunami, being powerful enough to push water up the tree covered slopes of the fjord with enough force to clear trees to a reported height of 524 m (1,719 ft). [9] A 1:675 recreation of the tsunami found the wave crest was 150 m (490 ft) tall. [14]

  3. Lituya Bay - Wikipedia

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    World's Biggest Tsunami: The largest recorded tsunami with a wave 1,720 feet (520 m) tall in Lituya Bay, Alaska; Photos of damage from the 1958 tsunami; Eyewitness reports of the tsunami; Video interview with survivors Howard and Sonny Ulrich (boat "Edrie"). "Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction". Air Date: BBC2, October 12, 2000.

  4. Ice shove - Wikipedia

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    An ice shove (also known as fast ice, an ice surge, ice push, ice heave, shoreline ice pileup, ice piling, ice thrust, ice tsunami, [1] ice ride-up, or ivu in Iñupiat) is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore. [2]

  5. Survivors Remember World's Deadliest Tsunami, Which Killed ...

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    The new documentary series will provide "a 360-degree view into the heart-stopping events of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that took over 225,000 lives" and include testimonies from "survivors ...

  6. How lab-generated tsunamis are helping worldwide - AOL

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    Twenty years on from the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami, there are still things we do not know about the phenomenon. More than 230,000 people died after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the sea ...

  7. Megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    An example of this was the 17 July 1998, Papua New Guinean landslide tsunami where waves up to 15 m high impacted a 20 km section of the coast killing 2,200 people, yet at greater distances the tsunami was not a major hazard. This is due to the comparatively small source area of most landslide tsunami (relative to the area affected by large ...

  8. Louis Mullan and his brother Theo last saw their parents on the beach in Khao Lak, Thailand just before the historic Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami brought devastation "We flew back on the first of Jan ...

  9. List of tsunamis - Wikipedia

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    A tsunami hitting a coastline. This article lists notable tsunamis, which are sorted by the date and location that they occurred.. Because of seismic and volcanic activity associated with tectonic plate boundaries along the Pacific Ring of Fire, tsunamis occur most frequently in the Pacific Ocean, [1] but are a worldwide natural phenomenon.