Just over 60 years ago, a giant wave washed over the narrow inlet of Lituya Bay, AK, knocking down the forest, sinking two fishing boats and claiming two lives. A nearby earthquake had triggered a rockslide into the bay, suddenly displacing massive volumes of water. The large landslide tsunami reached a height of more than 160 metres and caused a run-up (the vertical height that a wave reaches up a slope) of 524 metres above sea level.
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