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Energy and Environment One of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded was set off three years ago by a melting glacier. The wave generated was as high as 600 feet in a narrow Alaskan fjord.

On December 26, 2004, a series of devastating waves attacked coastlines all around the Indian Ocean, taking the largest toll of any tsunami ever recorded.

The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following an earthquake and a colossal landslide, and towered at a whopping 1720 feet.

Lituya Bay’s second-biggest tsunami on record hit on October 27, 1936. Eyewitnesses described three giant waves rolling in from Crillon Inlet one after the other at speeds around 22 mph [ PDF ].

For reference, the largest wave ever surfed, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was 86 feet from German big waver, Sebastian Steudtner on October 29th, 2020 in Nazaré, Portugal.

The tsunami, one of the largest ever recorded, was the result of a series of rare, cascading events set in motion by melting ice. A Sentinel-2 satellite image of the mountain peak after the landslide.

A sampling of the biggest, most destructive and deadliest tsunamis on record, including the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in northern Japan and the Indonesian disaster in 2004.