Lituya Bay Megatsunami - 1958

On July 9, 1958, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale rocked a small inlet in Alaska called Lituya Bay. It then caused part of a mountain at the back of the bay to collapse, causing a monstrous tsunami (an iminami) to fly headlong through the bay. At a mountain at the mouth of the bay, the run was measured to be 524 m making it the largest wave in recorded history.

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[skatefallen91]

that's almost as tall as my penis!

[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

[XanhalacIsNowCalahan]

@contentlocked99 Rock and ice is what fell in though.

[hynesmaster06]

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

[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

[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!!

[FamilyGuyKiCkSaSS]

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

[hanmeggy51]

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

[MrGrevy]

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

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

[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.