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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]
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]
By death toll. Rank ... earthquake. 111 died in the earthquake and another 4 in a tsunami. 46 were injured and many ... in the 1958 Lituya Bay, ...
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Lituya Bay, Alaska, U.S. 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska earthquake and megatsunami: Earthquake-triggered landslide: On the night of 9 July 1958, an earthquake on the Fairweather Fault in Alaska loosened about 40 million cubic yards (30 million cubic meters) of rock 3,000 feet (910 m) above the northeast shore of Lituya Bay. The impact in the waters of ...
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
Where were you during the great California non-tsunami of December 2024? When an unusually feisty earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area at 10:44 a.m. Thursday, most residents weren't ...
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