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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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, Canada. It is a part of the Fraser...

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...

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...

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

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...

Milo's Return, was released in 2003. In 6800 BC, an explosion sends a megatsunami toward the city of Atlantis. Leaving behind the King and their young...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

several towns. Around 2,000 people died. Scientists named these waves megatsunamis. Some geologists claim that large landslides from volcanic islands, e...

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...

figure of light as Redmond dies. Television news reports show devastating megatsunamis. Andrew believes Redmond was Rory O'Bannon, a man who had been arrested...

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...

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

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

resulting from a melting glacier near Dickson Fjord in Greenland triggered a megatsunami about 200 metres (660 ft) high. This was followed by a seiche with waves...

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...