The biggest, but not necessarily the worst ... for being the worst tsunami to hit the West Coast in recorded history. The ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis ... A wave, over 100 feet in height, also swept out of the ...

The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following an earthquake and a colossal landslide, and towered at a whopping 1720 feet. Their wave periods—or the time ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

All the five strongest earthquakes to occur since records began have struck there ... followed in the ensuing weeks — many of which were magnitude 6.0 and stronger. It also caused a series of tsunamis ...

TOKYO, January 15. /TASS/. Tsunami has reached the Amami Islands, with the waves of about 1.2 meters, the NHK TV channel reported on Saturday. There were no immediate reports about damage.

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. This is how scientists study tsunamis. The Delta Flume is a massive wave tank in the Netherlands. It's nearly 1,000- feet long.

Tsunamis, like regular waves, consist not of moving water ... and in some cases stronger than the initial impact. The biggest tsunami recorded was 1,720 feet tall on July 9th, 1958 in Lituya ...

A "tidal wave" violently tossed ... from newly uncovered archival records, looking at where the shaking was strongest. But they weren't sure about the tsunami link: The 11 a.m. arrival time ...