No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...
Americans do not typically live in fear of tsunamis, as it’s not a common occurrence, but it is possible, with the US being hit by 21 tsunamis since 1788. The largest tsunami to hit the US was in 1958 ...
(KSWB/KUSI) – Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning, no time to run — just the rumbles of an earthquake, the ...