The world’s largest tsunami was a massive 1,720 ft wave taller than skyscrapers | World | News
On Wednesday, July 30, he shook the Far East coast of Russia near the Kamchatka Peninsula, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. This seismic event, which is the sixth most powerful of registered history, sent tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean to Japan and Hawaii on the US West. More than two million people in the Pacific Rim were ordered to be evacuated as a precaution, but the warnings were far beyond, reaching the western coasts of China, Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand and even Peru, Chile and Mexico.
Fortunately, tsunami waves were much less destructive than initially scared. However, this last event revived some of the largest tsunams in history, especially the remarkable reflection of Alaska’s Lituya Gulf, which holds the record of the highest tsunami wave.
On the night of July 9, 1958, a 7.8 earthquake triggered a large landslide during the fairweather error.
Fairweather error is a large geological fault line in Southeast Alaska. A larger queen Charlotte-Fairweather, a larger queen Charlotte-Fairweather error system, which is a transformation error marking the border between the Pacific plate and the North American plate.
Unlike most tsunamis produced by underwater earthquakes, the large tsunami stemmed from the sudden collapse of a mountain.
This geological event, according to the United States Geological Study (USGS), replaces a large water and created a wave of tsunami that rises to an almost unimaginable height, causing about 40 million cubic cubic meters of rock to hit the narrow fjord.
To date, even on the iconic ground signs such as Shard, Empire State building and the Eiffel Tower, the longest wave remained on anywhere in the world.
Five people, including two people who were caught in the wave while on a fisherman’s boat, were killed.
With an extraordinary incident, a fishing boat was promoted to the air by his captain and son Tsunami, but he survived only with minor injuries.
The destructive wave also damaged or destroyed a large number of homes, and tears the surrounding forest, removed the trees along the way and peel.
The flood waters swallowed the whole dark, created a high circle of damage on the 699 feet of the Gulf’s draft, a scar that can still be seen from satellite images today.
While the Earth watches and preparing potential aftershocks and relevant volcanic activities near Kamchatka, the memory of the Litya Bay continues to be a strong example of how tsunamis can change significantly in terms of scale and impact.
