Alaska's 2025 Tsunami: Second-Tallest Wave on Record
TL;DR
Researchers say the Aug. 10, 2025 Tracy Arm Fjord tsunami in Alaska reached about 1,578 feet, the second-tallest tsunami in history, triggered by a massive landslide from glacier retreat and warming; no injuries were reported, and the record remains the 1958 Lituya Bay event at over 1,700 feet.
- Alaska's 1,578-foot tsunami was second largest ever recorded USA Today
- A Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come. The New York Times
- Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded BBC
- Alaskan megatsunami bigger than Empire State Building triggered by climate change Sky News
- Ride a jet ski through a re-creation of an Alaska mega-tsunami with the help of science CNN
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