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It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and ...

The Alaska megatsunami in August last year became the second-highest ever recorded, with waves towered up to 481 meters.

The world's second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving immense destruction in its wake.

A landslide caused 64 million cubic meters of rock to collapse in about one minute, triggering a seismic wave observed around the globe. Some waves became trapped in the fjord.

By chance a tour boat avoided a deadly tsunami set off by the retreat of Alaska's coastal glaciers. Scientists are working to spot landslides like the one that caused the massive wave to warn people i ...

Tracy Arm Fjord, in southeastern Alaska within the Tongass National Forest, presents a majestic vista, with a narrow sea ​inlet surrounded by towering granite cliffs, waterfalls and glaciers. One ...

When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock fell into the fjord, causing a 5.4 magnitude seismic event ...