One of the prettiest places in Southeast Alaska has felt some of nature's most violent behavior. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 miles southeast of Yakutat and 40 miles west of Glacier Bay, ...

A new scientific study has confirmed that a massive wave in Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord on August 10, 2025, reached 1,578 feet, making it the second-highest tsunami ever recorded. Triggered by a huge ...

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 ...

Scientists have confirmed that a massive wave in Southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord in 2025 was the second-tallest tsunami ever recorded, reaching 1,578 feet. Triggered by a massive landslide linked ...

On the night of July 9, 1958, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake along the Fairweather Fault in southeast Alaska shook loose about 40 million cubic yards of rock 4 million dump truck loads high above the ...

The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...

LITUYA BAY - With every distant roar, be it from Pacific surf crashing into rocks or jets flying overhead, we thought of 1958. That was the year a massive earthquake ripped through the back of the ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the Fairweather Fault in southeastern Alaska on July 10, 1958. Five people died as a result: three on Khantaak Island at the mouth of Yakutat Bay and two by their ...