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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]
September 15 – Newark Bay rail accident kills 48 people and injures the same number. September 18 – "Fresno Drop": BankAmericard, the first credit card to be widely offered, is launched in Fresno, California. [6] September 23 – The Spirit of Detroit statue is dedicated in Detroit, Michigan.
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]
“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 ...
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.
1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami: A megatsunami struck the 19-gross register ton, 40.2-foot (12.3 m) fishing vessel while she was at anchor in Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska, carrying her over La Chaussee Spit at the entrance to the bay into the open ocean and wrecking her.
115 people were killed in the 1958 Ecuador-Colombia earthquake. 111 died in the earthquake and another 4 in a tsunami. 46 were injured and many homes were destroyed. 115: 46 19 [10] [11] Ecuador, off the coast of Esmeraldas Province: 6.8: 27.5: VII Aftershock. 22 [12] [13] Taiwan, off the east coast of: 6.0: 25.0: VI 23 [14]
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