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Lituya Bay’s Apocalyptic Wave

One of the tallest tsunami waves known to science slammed this Alaskan bay in 1958.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial photos of Lituya Bay and the source of the rockslide by Don Miller for the USGS. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published November 20, 2020
Data acquired July 1, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph