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Sonny and Howard Ulrich, Video retelling of their surviving the event & simulated megatsunami; Horizon, BBC, first broadcast October 12, 2000. ("Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction") The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.
A megatsunami is a tsunami with an initial wave amplitude measured in many tens or hundreds of metres.The term "megatsunami" has been defined by media and has no precise definition, although it is commonly taken to refer to tsunamis over 100 metres (330 ft) high. [2]
A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...
The subsequent mega-tsunami — one of the highest in recent history — set off a wave which became trapped in the bendy, narrow fjord for more than a week, sloshing back and forth every 90 seconds.
A colossal rockslide that triggered a mega-tsunami caused the Earth to ‘hum’ for days, an event scientists say is directly linked to climate crisis
This 2000 documentary, part of the BBC's Horizon series, examines the possibility of a mega-tsunami caused by the collapse of a volcano on La Palma. It focuses on the theory proposed by geologists Simon Day and Bill McGuire in 2001, which suggests that a collapse on La Palma could generate a giant tsunami impacting the US east coast and the ...
A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days.
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.