The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...
No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...
On December 26, 2004, the world looked on in horror as massive tsunamis engulfed the shorelines of 14 countries along the Indian Ocean, ultimately killing over 230,000 people and displacing millions ...