(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 ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...

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 ...

Making waves across the world... and above it! Here's how a passing satellite ended up giving us a new way to analyze ...

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 ...

The massive January 2022 eruption of Hunga volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga took the world by surprise. It blasted a plume more than 50km into the atmosphere, sent pressure waves around the globe and ...

Stump of living spruce tree broken off by the giant wave at Harbor Point, mouth of Lituya Bay. Brim of hat is 12 inches in diameter. This tree is located about 7 miles from where the wave originated. ...

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 ...