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Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami

When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock ...

Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second tallest ever ...

Ride a jet ski through a re-creation of an Alaska mega-tsunami with the help of science

The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving ...

Japan on high alert for 'huge' second quake after issuing tsunami warning

Japan's meteorological agency warns another, stronger earthquake may hit in the next week, ...

NASA Satellite Captures First-Ever High-Res View of Massive Pacific Tsunami

A powerful tsunami seen from space is overturning what scientists thought they knew about how these waves travel.

80 cm tsunami recorded after 7.4-magnitude quake hit northern Japan

TOKYO: An 80-centimetre (31-inch) tsunami wave hit a port in northern Japan Monday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake ...

‘Unprecedented’: Last year, Alaska had the second-tallest tsunami ever recorded, with zero warning

A wave nearly as tall as the Empire State Building tore through a Southeast Alaska fjord last year. A new study published ...
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The Biggest Tsunami Ever Recorded: Inside the 1,720-Foot Wave (Video)

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...