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Aerial view of Lituya Bay. This was the biggest earthquake the area had seen in fifty years, approximately magnitude 8.FYI, trawlers drag nets, trollers drag hooks. Exploring Alaska's Lost Coast: Backpacking and Packrafting from Yakutat to Lituya Bay, 2015. Cenotaph Island is at center. In 1958, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake triggered a tremendous landslide into the ocean. I have updated the text accordingly, thanks for the correction.I was in Alaska at that time as a military dependent , but don’t recall feeling any shaking or tremors at Fort Richardson.

He sliced samples from the trees along the edge of the old growth and saw signs of blunt trauma. Bottom line, I don’t think the author of this article, nor the other accounts I have read, are overstating anything.The 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami remains the highest such wave in recorded history. It’s impossible to know when, if ever, these rockfalls will occur, and if they do, exactly how catastrophic the resulting waves would be. Had several restless nights on anchor.Gway is right. Due to the way Lituya Bay is situated, an observer on the spit would see the sun set over the ocean, but someone at the opposite end would see it set over a mountain.
I am sure the mother ship was standing well off the coast and probably didn’t have visual communications with the launch. It also caused a rockfall in Lituya Bay that generated a wave with a maximum height of 1,720 feet – the world’s largest recorded tsunami. A layer of bobbing logs, chunks of ice, mud, and other detritus covered much of the bay and stuck out into the ocean like a tongue. This is basically the only place to find shelter from the open ocean between Cross Sound and Yakutat. On July 10, 1958, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred on the Fairweather Fault in southeast Alaska. One World Trade Center in New York City is only 56 feet taller. So even though they reacted more quickly, their boat was not fast enough to exit the bay before the wave hit.

Wiegel, built a 1:1000 scale model of Lituya Bay and found that he could more or less recreate Miller's observations given a large enough mass of rocks falling as a unit into Gilbert Inlet at high velocity.
Nevertheless, you are *more* correct, especially since that section of the text largely centers around people entering the bay from the mouth. (Map from Miller, Great Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska)The spur that forms the corner between Gilbert Inlet and the main body of Lituya Bay. I thought that the actual boats that were there on the night of the wave were also trollers. Also remember the Swansons from Elfin Cove. The wave had carved a channel through the middle of Cenotaph Island, and La Chaussee Spit was scrubbed down to the rock. One of the unnamed mountain peaks that stood at the inland end of Lituya Bay had broken off, dropping ninety million tons of rock into the water with the force equivalent to a meteor strike. This wave had reached over three times farther up shore than the previous large waves in the bay, and therefore had obliterated all evidence of the prior events. I commercially fished salmon in SE Alaska for 6 seasons and had the opportunity to spend a few nights in Lituya Bay, an incredibly remote and awesome place. In all three cases, no bodies were recovered. From a distance, the bay appears to have a wide mouth, but a narrow strip of land called “La Chaussee Spit” drapes across most of the opening, leaving the actual inlet only 1,600 feet (490 meters) wide.I’ve loved the site for a long time, signing up to comment and support this great resource :DAgreed with GuyWhoRuinsEverything about the word “topography” It is too bad that they did not conclude escape was futile and turn their boat to face the wave at the last instant. Down at the shore, the hull of their anchored boat clanged against the rocky floor of the bay behind the passing waves.An amazing story. Fittingly, a research vessel named after Miller served as George Plafker's base of operations for some of his work studying changes to the Alaska coastline after the 1964 earthquake--work that would greatly advance understanding of plate tectonics and especially subduction.In 2016, an entire mountainside failed and ran out onto the Lamplugh Glacier. I spent most of my summers there when I was a kid. Later inspection would find that the water had sloshed as high as 490 feet (150 meters) up the shore.