On July 9, 1958, a 7.8–8.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Fairweather Fault in southeast Alaska, triggering a massive landslide into Gilbert Inlet at the head of Lituya Bay. According to the ...
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 ...
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 ...