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  2. 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami - Wikipedia

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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.

  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. Megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    Mega Tsunami: history, causes, effects; World's Biggest Tsunami: The largest recorded tsunami with a wave 1720 feet tall in Lituya Bay, Alaska. Benfield Hazard Research Centre; BBC – Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction BBC Two program broadcast 12 October 2000; La Palma threat "over-hyped" Archived 2017-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News ...

  5. Melting glacier ‘could lead to mega-tsunami within a year ...

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    A group of scientists has warned that collapsing mountain slopes in Alaska in 2015 had led to waves up to 633 feet in height. Melting glacier ‘could lead to mega-tsunami within a year ...

  6. Earthquake off the Alaska coast triggers brief tsunami ... - AOL

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    A 7.2 magnitude earthquake triggered a brief tsunami advisory for southern Alaska late Saturday, but the advisory was canceled about an hour later, monitoring bodies reported. The earthquake was ...

  7. Study finds 'rare but real risk' of tsunami threat to parts ...

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    The findings from the study by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophy Study finds 'rare but real risk' of tsunami threat to parts of Alaska's largest ...

  8. Icy Bay (Alaska) - Wikipedia

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    The Taan Fiord event bore a strong similarity to the July 1958 landslide and megatsunami in Alaska's Lituya Bay. [7] The Taan Fiord landslide was the largest recorded in North America since the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980, [ 5 ] and the largest non-volcanic landslide in North America ever recorded. [ 9 ]

  9. Megathrust earthquake - Wikipedia

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    This subduction zone was responsible for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [15] In parts of the megathrust south of Java , referred to as the Java Trench , for the western part, M w 8.9 is possible, while in the eastern Java segment, M w 8.8 is possible, while if both were to rupture at the same time, the magnitude would be M w 9.1.