2012年1月18日 · Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 miles southeast of Yakutat and 40 miles west of Glacier Bay, is the site of the largest splash wave ever recorded. In 1958, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake triggered a tremendous landslide into the ocean.

The crossbar part of Lituya Bay is the glacier-filled trench of the Fairweather fault, an active break slicing through the mountains roughly parallel to the coast. At some time in the recent past, a weakness in the rock strata allowed a breach to develop connecting the Fairweather trench to the ocean, and so Lituya Bay was formed.

2003年6月15日 · Lituya Bay lies perpendicular to the Pacific Ocean coastline, is about seven miles long and varies from three-fourths of a mile to two miles wide. The entrance to the bay is about 1,000 feet across at low tide, and the bay’s tidal fluctuations create a strong current at the entrance recorded to be as fast as 13.8 miles per hour (12 knots ...

2003年6月12日 · LITUYA BAY—With every distant roar, be it from Pacific surf crashing into rocks or jets flying overhead, we thought of 1958. That was the year a massive earthquake ripped through the back of the Lituya Bay, a mountain collapsed into deep water, and a giant wave swept through the bay.

2016年4月7日 · The Icy Bay landslide was larger than the amount of rock and soil a huge earthquake shook into Lituya Bay on a July day in 1958. But the Lituya Bay wave was larger because it fell from a higher elevation into deeper water. Scientists estimate the Icy Bay slide might be the biggest non-volcanic landslide, by volume, in North America’s written ...

2022年6月23日 · Here, about 10 miles north of Lituya Bay, it is breezy enough to be chilly here even on this summer day. The exposure makes it easy to imagine winter storms blasting through. “Nothing is stopping the winds between here and Hawaii,” Gaglioti says, pointing to the blue-green expanse of ocean that ends at a line that looks like you might fall ...

2024年12月5日 · Headland beside the Lituya Glacier that was swept clean of soil and trees to a height of 1740 feet by the giant splash wave. The icebergs seen in the water of Lituya Bay, foreground, were knocked off the glacier by the landslide falling into the bay from a slope to the right of the photograph. Photo by Byron Hale.

The magnitude 8.0 earthquake that shifted the opposite sides of the Fairweather fault (which passes near the head of Lituya Bay) by about ten feet was not extraordinary by Alaska standards. But the jolt dislodged an entire mountainside which crashed into the bay at 9:15 that evening and changed a lot of things.

2021年3月18日 · In 1958, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a rockslide into Southeast Alaska’s Lituya Bay, creating a tsunami that ran 1,700 feet up a mountainside before racing out to sea. Researchers now think the region’s widespread loss …

2025年1月23日 · These so-called sandblows were one of the more spectacular consequences of the great Lituya Bay earthquake of July 10, 1958, though few people saw them, and time soon obliterated evidence of their existence. Tens of thousands of sandblows occurred during the earthquake in the flat coastal region (the Foreland) between Lituya Bay and Yakutat.