History’s Biggest Recorded Tsunami Happened in the US: A Look Back

History’s biggest recorded tsunami happened in the US: A look back

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 thunder of a mountainside collapsing, and then, a wave unlike any other.

The world's largest recorded tsunami happened in the US: A look back

(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 thunder of a mountainside collapsing, and then, a wave unlike any other. 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 larges…