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...
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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)...
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Icy Bay (Alaska) (redirect from 2015 Taan Fiord landslide and megatsunami)
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...
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1792 Unzen landslide and tsunami (category Megatsunamis)
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...
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Lituya Bay (section 1958 megatsunami)
eyewitness report of the existence of megatsunamis. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lituya Bay megatsunami. Lituya Mountain Guinness World Records...
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Paleotsunami (section Megatsunami on other planets)
modern technology and scientific research. One of the largest was a megatsunami resulting from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Studying paleotsunamis...
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Vajont Dam (redirect from 1963 Vajont Dam megatsunami)
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...
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Madagascar. Based on a hypothesis that these dunes were formed by a megatsunami resulting from an impact, the researchers were able to triangulate the...
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Tollmann's bolide hypothesis (section Megatsunami)
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...
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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...
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Harrison Hot Springs (section Megatsunami risk)
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...
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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...
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Cumbre Vieja (section Potential megatsunami)
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...
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eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, megatsunamis, and a global flood. Filming, planned for Los Angeles, began in Vancouver...
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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...
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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...
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1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (category Megatsunamis)
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...
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water after filling the crater, and related seismic activity spawned megatsunamis over 100 meters (330 ft) tall, with one simulation suggesting the immediate...
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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...
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Skafjell into the Storfjorden opposite Stranda. The slide generated a megatsunami 30 metres (98 ft) in height that struck Stranda, flooding the area for...
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hypothesized as providing evidence of "megatsunamis" caused by comets or asteroids crashing into Earth. However, the megatsunami origin of the Fernambosy and other...
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1883 eruption of Krakatoa (category Megatsunamis)
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...
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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...
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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...
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1674 Ambon earthquake and megatsunami Local date February 17, 1674 (1674-02-17) Local time 19:30 to 20:00 EIT Magnitude Ms 6.8 Depth 40 km (25 mi) Epicenter...
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1958 7.8 Landslide, megatsunami (524 m), housing and infrastructure destruction, 5 casualties 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami 1970 7.4 Landslides...
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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...
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Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho causing earthquakes, rockslides, and megatsunami which severely altered the topography of nearby areas. In Yellowstone...
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (category Megatsunamis)
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...
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light as Redmond dies. On television, news reports show devastating megatsunamis. Andrew believes Redmond is Rory O'Bannon, a man who had been arrested...
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