Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 A cruise ship full of people only narrowly avoided the disaster. U.S. Geological Survey agency/via REUTERS The massive megatsunami that plowed into Alaska ...

A huge tsunami 1.5 times the size of the Eiffel Tower hit a popular tourist spot in Alaska last year, a new study has revealed. Measuring 1,578ft (481 metres) high, the tsunami ran up the wall of ...

South Sawyer Glacier at the end of Tracy Arm Fjord, where the second-largest tsunami on record occurred. Photo Credit: Alexandre.ROSA/Shutterstock.com A tsunami ...

Back in August of 2025, something massive happened in Alaska. Deep in the Tracy Arm, a stunning fjord southeast of Juneau, more than two billion cubic feet of earth collapsed, falling into the ocean ...

Most tsunamis go unnoticed. Defined as a wave caused by a disturbance like an earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption, tsunamis often reach just a few inches in height, according to NOAA. But when ...

Any large movement of land that causes major displacement of ocean water—from earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic eruptions—can generate a tsunami. Tsunamis generated in Alaska have caused damage and ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, ...

It turns out that an enormous tsunami in Alaska last summer was one of the biggest in history. Researchers say a mountainside collapse in August sent 64 million cubic meters of rock crashing into ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand.