HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi is no stranger to the ocean’s power. Most people know tsunamis as towering waves caused by earthquakes far across the Pacific. What many do not know is that the islands ...
In 1958, a massive landslide in Alaska’s Lituya Bay triggered the tallest tsunami ever recorded — a wave so powerful it sheared trees 1,700 feet above sea level and erased everything in its path ...