Lituya Bay Megatsunami - 1958

[hynesmaster06]

Why on all the tsunami vids ive watched people are arguing over stupid things

[twibby101]

That is crazy i could not imagine standing on the ground and right in front of me a 1,720 foot tall wave i wouldent even try to run cause it was such a huge wave it had to be going extremely fast and even if i did run were would i go? you know its just so huge it would probably flatten me to be as thin as paper!!

[bersaba]

Oh boy are you people simple (the doubters). You know how they know how high it is? Because it left a waterline where it stripped the trees, dirt, bugs, bears and any other crap that was there back to bedrock. How high was that? 1719feet. Go look at a photo of it.

And then go do a basic physics glass, followed by 1/2 a second googling it, and maybe kick yourself in the ass.

[bersaba]

btw in regards to the "people surfed it" and what not a few of these comments got it back to front.

There were a few boats that were effected by it, but the wave had lost a lot of height by that point. 1 boat with 2 deaths was hit by about 100foot wave, the rest were smaller (depending on their location) as the wave disapated in the more open bay.

[MrGrevy]

@bersaba Who gives a FUCK about the bears and mosquitoes. Quit crying for them.

[bersaba]

@MrGrevy

I wasn't crying about them you fucktard. I was lamenting that there are people so stupid as to doubting something for which the evidence is as plain as day (and a photo). Granted I misspelt class as glass, but still.

[MrGrevy]

@bersaba Oh ok. Well as long as you weren't defending bears and mosquitoes.

[WangZtaEmiL]

ahhh..... this makes me think about the great white north 8D

[thefury187]

1,720 ft high WHAT THE FUCK imagine seeing that I would fucking shit,piss and throwup all at once

[verlanderpc]

Man, that was the highest wave ever recorded and only 2 people die

[onlyoneak]

@verlanderpc . Only 2 people died because there was hardly anyone else in that bay at the time. Remember this is Alaska! Remote,true wilderness, with thousands of miles of undeveloped,wilderness areas! Think about that!

[hondaturbo01]

onlyoneak you are right.That jackass 5Fathom5 is an ignorant fool...check it from google earth and see the disaster......GReetings from GReece

[Neanderthalmanny]

So many KNOBHEADS commenting on what they reckon here. Why dont the doubters study PHYSICS specifically motion in water before they choose to dismiss? It happened so accept it!

[5Fathom5]

its all bullshit, it is impossible for a wave to reach that height in such shallow water, it might have splashed up the sides of the hill but it was not what it was made out to be, maybe 25 mtrs high max and that is exaggerating..just like the Americans like to do

[onlyoneak]

5fathomdenailfuck! Wasn't made out to be??? You that ignorant?????????? What don't your sorry ass get about reality???????????????????????­????????????????????You that fucking dumb???? IT HAPPENED IN 1958! 8.3 QUAKE! mOUNTAINSIDE GAVE WAY,WENT ACROSS THE BAY, AND (UP THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINSIDE 1700FT! What don't you get? You ignorant fuck! Called Alaska,and nature! Get it??????????? Stupid fuck!!!

[Policestate2000]

how can a 25 metre wave splash up to over 500m? besides a documentary made about this which was done by a british company said the same thing, ~1700ft wave

[5zacefron]

no,this is a mega tsunami than a nor mal tsunami.Mega tsunami can reach high as a 10 storey buliding than a normal tsunami.

[ditdatdot]

it is possible u faggot. look it up before saying anything

[InteGrayting]

From what I understand is that if it would'nt have been contained in the bay and reached open water, this could have been one of those ocean crossing mega waves.

[loveunderlaw]

Most definitely!

[Roflmao1423]

the earthquake caused a landslide yes, and it was fuckin' 40 million cubic meters of rock, 900 meters above the ocean that fell down.. imagine the impact o.O

[contentlocked99]

well 1 cubic meter of rock is an average 1,600 kilos. that equals about 64,000,000,000 kilos of rock. so 64 billion kilos falling 900 meters, force=mass multiplied by gravity. the force of impact would be roughly 627,200,000,000 newtons. the little boy bomb produced 300,000 newtons, so that's 2,090,666 of those going off at once :P

[hanmeggy51]

@contentlocked99 wow! wat r u an alien cuz u know alot lol

[FamilyGuyKiCkSaSS]

@hanmeggy51 yes he is an alien and nobody on this planet knows basic mechanics :P

[panner11]

@contentlocked99 the little boy bomb produced far more than 300,000 newtons of energy, although it was not as powerful as the lituya bay landslide

[XanhalacIsNowCalahan]

@contentlocked99 Rock and ice is what fell in though.

[thefury187]

No I dont imagine that nor Do I ever want to

[BlockisticStudios]

We would be fucked if something like that hit a city.

[lameuser1]

Yeah, I read this story in a book. A dude and his son managed to ride the wave and NOT DIE.

Now, that's one helluvaride.

[Connactzor]

Stop lying retard :)

[lameuser1]

Yeah, i know right...me reading a book. Who knew I was capable of such things? Are you? :P

[GRando666]

It is true though, read up on things before commenting :)

[ElzaBopZoyo]

There were actually three boats and two rode the wave, one being the dad and child. The other boat was crushed underneath the wave.

[torpedozepeda]

Actually i saw something like this on tv about the 2004 tsunami. When people ride the wave they tend to not even feel anything excet the elevation of the boat rising.

[dldthree]

it's only 1720 ft and the cn tower is 1815.4 ft. but the sears tower is 1,730 ft and the world trade center is or was 1727 ft.

[sbwoy]

1,729 ft?!!! thats almost as tall as the CN tower!

[skatefallen91]

that's almost as tall as my penis!

[mcab1993]

hahahahahah

[charimakis]

@skatefallen91 almost xD

[sm4toh]

The initial wave of 1,720 ft was a huge splash formed by an enormous landslide at the head of the bay. The earthquake seem to have triggered this landslide that involved the major part of a whole mountainside. The wave that travelled through the bay out towards the mouth was smaller in height, but big enough to lift boats anchored at the bay mouth high over the trees.

[Tuihiwytsm]

Hey folks. I could be wrong here, but my recollection is that this particular tsunami phenomenon has not necessarily been triggered by the earthquakes themselves, but by a combination of landslides that were triggered by them, and the unique shape of Lituya Bay (it has a very narrow inlet.) B.

[skatefallen91]

yeah, i'm pretty sure you're right. i think it goes

Earthquake --> Landslide --> Giant Wave

[MooseAndFitch]

A 1,729 foot high tsunami wave crashed down in lituya bay alaska on july 9 1958. The tsunami was triggered by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake. The water from the bay covered 5 square miles of land and traveled inland as far as 3,600 feet. Million of trees were washed away. Amazingly , because the area was isolatedand the coastline was sheltered by coves , only 2 people died when their fishing boat sank.

[vatoXlocos]

LOL wtf.. err yeah I SURE thought SW meant stormwind.. WTF..

[vatoXlocos]

You're a gay WoW player.

[vatoXlocos]

You may not need meds but you sure are GAY(sw)

[MVUrsaMajor]

Discovery Channel program Megatsunamis originally done early 2002 had first third on Lituya Bay wave. I saw program and visited Lituya Bay twice. I will send lisa info and photos for her search. One survivor lives in Sitka. It is a beautiful but eerie part of Glacier Bay National Park. 1720 foot wave over the Northern headland..Trim line where forest destroyed up to about 400 feet as I recall.  An island beach of felled trees with rootballs lined up like matchsticks.

[lisaherider]

Thanks for all you're help. You are right that my grandfather died as a reult of the wave but not exactly from it directly. You have helped me clarify it.

[lisaherider]

Are you okay? Perhaps you shouldn't self-medicate and get back on your meds.

Are you asking for help?

[lisaherider]

Do your research before you reply to shit you know nothing about. Look up Tsunami 1958 Alaska before you make a fool out of yourself again.

[Mursilia]

524m?...

ok thats a nice wave to surf =D

[mikeanbamgay]

yeh hu cares this is youtube

[Viper2734]

You only need proof to be believed unless it's Fox News giving a story!

[lisaherider]

My grandfather,

Robert Tibbles, Sr. was one of those that died on his boat with his new wife and another woman who's named in the Anchorage Times. Why do you cite the eye witnesses but not those that died?

[swordfighter3]

you need proof to show if your grandfather really had died in this event, all it takes is proof to let them belive you

[gcharocks]

Does anyone really give a crap!

[lisaherider]

Look up the Anchorage Times for July 10, 1958.

[fjeffrey10]

Does it ever get warm enough in Alaska to go swimming in that bay?

[matthewrockslol22]

there actually were people fishing in the bay at the time, they rode the wave across the bay and survived, but the other 2 boats got swept out to sea and got destroyed, along with the people inside it. can u imagine riding a wave 1,720 feet high? thats higher than a skyscraper..AND SURVIVE!!

[matthewrockslol22]

i saw this on the discovery channel, it was half a killomiter high, thats almost 2x higher than a skyscaper..look for it on the discovery channel

[lisaherider]

Do you have any details of the Discovery show? Date? Name? I'd sure like to get a video of this . . .

[swordfighter3]

same here, it is absolutely awsome to see the forces of nature do things that are far more greater than most things on earth, even an atomic bomb!

[theuropean2002]

Most amazing thing ever, a 1720 ft high wave, I would love to see this thing from a safe distance, it would still probably give me nightmares, I imagine it took some serious balls for the father to actually drive that boat in the tsunami so they ended up riding it, must have been some scarry specacular experience.

[NBZink]

..and i would like surf it. :)

[LadyTwenties]

Absolutely incredible, the force of nature! :O Thanks so much for putting this up, I'm always transfixed whenever I watch this footage!

[bonethug7]

Imagine if you were fishing in that lake when that happened. I know a few people were!

[lisaherider]

Do you know personally anyone that was there? Again, my grandfather was one of the few that died in it and I'm trying to get any info I can.

[jhonyboy19]

holy shit thats high

[swordfighter3]

the wave was 1,720 ft.

[nrcf]

nipples...thats insane nucca

[jhonyboy19]

um what does that have 2 do w/ anything