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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

with the band name; naming it after the 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami that swallowed one of Alaska’s gulfs. Oceans Ate Alaska was founded in...

over the world by palynologists have not shown the existence of such a megatsunami. In the case of North America, research published by various authors...

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

count as a megatsunami, with the highest prediction for Western Sahara comparable to the Japanese tsunami, so it would only be a megatsunami locally in...

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...

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

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

together with bacteria to destabilize the continental shelf, causing a megatsunami which kills millions and severely damages the coastal infrastructure...

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

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...

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...

hypothesized as providing evidence of "megatsunamis" caused by comets or asteroids crashing into Earth. However, the megatsunami origin of the Fernambosy and other...

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...

In 1792, the collapse of one of its several lava domes triggered a megatsunami that killed 14,524 people in Japan's worst volcanic-related disaster...

190 km (120 mi) into the sea, and generated a 600 m (2,000 ft)-high megatsunami that inundated the rest of Molokai and severely damaged the surrounding...

Bismarck. On 13 March 1888, a volcano erupted on Ritter Island causing a megatsunami. Almost the entire volcano fell into the ocean, leaving a small crater...