Water furiously lashing the top of the Empire State Building might sound like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi blockbusters but, in reality, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility. Because, you see, ...

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The earthquake caused a large landslide in the bay — located within Glacier Bay National Park — which triggered one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded in modern times. Waves reached a ...

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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 biggest 'rogue wave' ever recorded has been confirmed in the North Pacific Ocean. In November 2020, just off the coast of British Columbia in Canada, a huge wave was measured as being 17.6 ...

Scientists have detected the largest number of gravitational waves since these cosmic events were first discovered in 2015. ... Record-breaking ‘tsunami’ of gravitational waves detected ...

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 ].

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.