{"id":91617,"date":"2026-05-06T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/massive-alaska-megatsunami-was-second-largest-ever-recorded\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:55:18","slug":"massive-alaska-megatsunami-was-second-largest-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/massive-alaska-megatsunami-was-second-largest-ever-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A massive ‘megatsunami’ wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second tallest ever recorded \u2013 and a reminder of the risks posed by melting glaciers, say scientists.<\/p>\n
Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in its wake.<\/p>\n
The event went largely unreported at the time, but a new scientific analysis shows it was caused by a massive landslide.<\/p>\n
An incredible 64 million cubic metres of rock \u2013 the equivalent of 24 Great Pyramids – splashed into the water below. The sheer power of that amount of rock plunging into the fjord in under a minute created a gigantic wave almost 500 metres tall.<\/p>\n
Only the time it happened \u2013 in the early hours of the morning \u2013 prevented tourist cruise ships being caught up in the devastation, say the researchers.<\/p>\n
Dr Bretwood Higman, an Alaskan geologist, who saw for himself the damage at Tracy Arm Fjord, said it was “a close call”.<\/p>\n
“We know that there were people that were very nearly in the wrong place,” he said. ‘I’m quite terrified that we’re not going to be so lucky in the future.”<\/p>\n\n