A megatsunami is a very large wave created by a large, sudden displacement of material into a body of water. Megatsunamis have different features from...

kilometers (50 mi) away, and the sudden displacement of water resulted in a megatsunami that washed out trees to a maximum elevation of 524 meters (1,719 feet)...

the retreat of Tyndall Glacier. The resulting landslide generated a megatsunami in Taan Fjord. The area is uninhabited and no one was visiting it at...

Works. On 9 October 1963, during initial filling, a landslide caused a megatsunami in the lake in which 50,000,000 m3 (1.8×109 cu ft) of water overtopped...

eyewitness report of the existence of megatsunamis. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lituya Bay megatsunami. Lituya Mountain Guinness World Records...

Harrison Hot Springs is a village located at the southern end of Harrison Lake in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. It is a member of the Fraser Valley...

Madagascar. Based on a hypothesis that these dunes were formed by a megatsunami resulting from an impact, the researchers were able to triangulate the...

On March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series...

modern technology and scientific research. One of the largest was a megatsunami resulting from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Studying paleotsunamis...

Return, was released in 2003. In 6,800 BC, a giant explosion sends a megatsunami toward the city of Atlantis. Leaving behind her husband, the King, and...

water after filling the crater, and related seismic activity spawned megatsunamis over 100 meters (330 ft) tall, with one simulation suggesting the immediate...

light as Redmond dies. On television, news reports show devastating megatsunamis. Andrew believes Redmond is Rory O'Bannon, a man who had been arrested...

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesian: Letusan Krakatau 1883) in the Sunda Strait occurred from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late morning...

Molokaʻi experienced a 75 m (246 ft) tsunami, and 100,000 years ago a megatsunami 325 m (1,066 ft) high struck Lānaʻi. A more recent example of the risks...

eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, megatsunamis, and a global flood. Filming, planned for Los Angeles, began in Vancouver...

once reached a height of 330 ft (100 m), classing this tsunami as a megatsunami. At the Osaki-bana point Futsu town, the waves locally grew to a height...

history. Such an event would've caused global volcanism, earthquakes, megatsunamis, and global climate change. >2.4×1010 >28 ZWh The impact energy of Archean...

(S)". "Dickson, Ian, "60 Years Ago: The 1958 Earthquake and Lituya Bay Megatsunami," University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Earthquake Center, July 13, 2018...

hits the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, creating a megatsunami that destroys much of the East Coast of the United States, reaching the...

boundaries. A volcanic collapse in Lanai 100,000 years ago generated a megatsunami that inundated land at elevations higher than 300 metres (980 ft). Tourism...

scholars have argued that an impact event in an ocean or sea may create a megatsunami, which can cause destruction both at sea and on land along the coast...

Prevention Agency assures him that South Korea is at no risk, but a large megatsunami forms because of a landslide near Japan and starts to travel towards...

tsunamigenic effects. The two most recent prehistoric landslides generated megatsunamis which struck Alluttoq Island, the first sometime around 5650 BC with...

Lituya Bay megatsunami, which had a record height of 524 m (1,719 ft). The only other recent megatsunamis are the 1963 Vajont Dam megatsunami, which had...

the sea, can generate tsunamis. Massive landslides can also generate megatsunamis, which are usually hundreds of meters high. In 1958, one such tsunami...

scientific consensus is that the asteroid impact at the K–Pg boundary left megatsunami deposits and sediments around the area of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf...

1958 7.8 Landslide, megatsunami (524 m), housing and infrastructure destruction, 5 casualties 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami 1970 7.4 Landslides...

as well as Viking Bergen Island, is thought to have been flooded by a megatsunami following the Storegga Slide of c. 6100 BC. Some have proposed the Celtic...

slide into the ocean. This could then generate a giant wave, known as a "megatsunami" around 650–900 m (2,130–2,950 ft) high. The wave could radiate out across...

lava fountains and extensive lava flows, minor mudflows on the sea, megatsunamis, caldera collapse, fatalities, mass evacuation. 197 BC Unknown Central...