Aug 17, 2025
On Sunday, August 10 a 1,585 foot high megatsunami struck a portion of Alaska, leading to widespread devastation which greatly changed the landscape. Thankfully, no one was harmed because the second tallest tsunami ever recorded thankfully had its worst extents confined to a remote fjord. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "Wave99", is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, decreased brightness of bright areas in image, increased darkness of dark areas in image, text overlay, overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "Glass Ceiling", by: James Loesch, jal33, 2016,
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