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Largest tsunami recorded ever…
• An earthquake followed by a landslide in 1958 in Alaska's Lituya
Bay generated a wave 100 feet high, the tallest tsunami ever
documented. When the wave ran ashore, it snapped trees 1,700
feet upslope. Five deaths were recorded, but property damage
was minimal because there were few cities or towns nearby.
