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Lituya Bay has a history of megatsunami events, but the 1958 event was the first for which sufficient data was captured and was responsible for the deaths of 5 people. [ 9 ] [ 19 ] [ 17 ] A subsequent analysis to the 1999 one that examined the wider impact of the event found that the rockfall itself was inadequate to explain the resulting ...
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.
5 people were killed in the 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska earthquake and megatsunami. Some homes were destroyed with costs being around $100,000 (1958 rate). Some homes were destroyed with costs being around $100,000 (1958 rate).
Lituya Bay (/ l ɪ ˈ tj uː j ə /; Tlingit: Ltu.aa, [1] meaning 'lake within the point') [2] is a fjord located on the coast of the south-east part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 14.5 km (9 mi) long and 3.2 km (2 mi) wide at its widest point. The bay was noted in 1786 by Jean-François de Lapérouse, who named it Port des Français ...
July 9 – 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami: A 7.8 M w strike-slip earthquake in Southeast Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay.
In 2004 a tsunami in the Indian Ocean pummeled multiple nations in Asia and caused at least 225,000 deaths along with massive destruction. ... when a landslide entered the Lituya Bay Fiord in ...
see 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska earthquake and megatsunami: 58.37 −136.66 5 7.7 M w USGS November 6, 1958: 22:58 Kuril Islands, USSR see 1958 Kuril Islands earthquake: 44.48 148.45 8.3 M w USGS May 4, 1959: 07:15 Kamchatka, USSR see 1959 Kamchatka earthquake: 53.37 159.66 1 8.0 M w [25] August 18, 1959: 06:37 Hebgen Lake, Montana, United States
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 ...