The Biggest Wave Ever Recorded

This was the biggest wave ever recorded in all of history.
And scientists are worried it could happen again...
The biggest wave ever recorded was documented in Lituya Bay, in the southeast of Alaska, when an earthquake triggered a series of events that resulted in a mega tsunami. History and science books consider it to be the largest tsunami of modern times.
On July 9th, 1958, at 10:15PM, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake caused a rock slide of around 40 million cubic yards in the Gilbert Inlet. Rocks, glaciers, and other debris fell from an altitude of approximately 3,000 feet, and the consequences were brutal.
The event resulted in the highest wave in recorded history. The mega tsunami itself measured 300 feet high, but the following breaking wave became much bigger. As the giant mountain of water traveled across the entire length of Lituya Bay, it reached a peak height of 1,720 feet near the Gilbert Inlet, then destroyed everything around it.

[@vinceramirez6963]

I’m going to be honest, if I saw this shit coming towards me, I’d just close my eyes and accept my fate.

[@fast97z24]

That's certainly what they do in movies. .

[@dmac2899]

You better be praying because you’re probably fixing to see God

[@AndrewBoniface09]

Weak... can't you just enjoy surfing above it?

[@GapingClam]

Pshhh thats pussy stuff. Id just rip my front door off and duck dive it. EZ clap

[@hmalik5232]

@@dmac2899 Why would you spend your last moments doing something so pointless? God doesn’t exist.

[@rexx9496]

The fact that this wave happened at night makes it even scarier.

[@GameN3rdz]

Woah 😮

[@muthamucka9009]

Possibly the only thankful thing in this scenario is that it happened at night when most children would've been asleep. Horrific.

[@mcouture8169]

At Lituya Bay, AK, on July 9th, the sunset isn't until 10:13pm and last light is 11:25pm. They could see the tsunami coming.

[@Adam-ww8ei]

It does?

[@user-ck4ps8vt6k]

Which is why I'm not buying their estimates at all on what it's actual height was, especially at that time.

[@Fernandez218]

Cooper: "Those aren't mountains... they're waves."

[@SlayKat43279]

Interstellar right?

[@Fernandez218]

@@SlayKat43279 Cooper : I love you, forever. You hear me? I love you forever. And I'm coming back. I'm coming back.

[@RedNumber19]

Can I just point out of those pictures was straight up a mountain with the colours changed to make it look more wave-like

[@Fernandez218]

@@RedNumber19 The first picture was part of the mountain of Lituya Bay that was damaged by the mega-tsunami. It looks like it was a picture cropped from a wikpedia pic on the incident.

[@RedNumber19]

@@Fernandez218 ohhh I see

[@GaijinGamerGirl]

Florida man: I can surf that.

[@cherriecarr4345]

😂

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Hawaiian man: No, you can't.

[@bobshmeegle2238]

Fr tho you might aswell try, you're defo dead either way

[@AlphaEligon]

If a Florida man could really say that he can surf at 500 ft wave good luck in getting a helicopter to fly that high unsuccessfully drop you into the wave hopefully you will live😅😅😅

[@VictoriaVictory-ui9ux]

😂😂😂

[@pasigiri]

1720 ft. For reference, the Empire State Building is 1454 ft to the tip. I don't think running was an option.

[@Solstare]

The wave itself wasn’t 1720 feet, that’s just how high the water was pushed up the tree line

[@mileyroses35]

@@Solstare thank you. that makes so much more sense

[@BrainFuck10]

nope you’re wrong! The wave directly hit a steep hillside, it’s not gonna push water up a steep hillside, the wave has to peak ON the hillside and it literally imprinted itself on the hill the peak and angle of decline is well documented you can see diagrams based on the washed up tree line showing the exact shape of the wave with half of the hillside washed out

[@Solstare]

@@BrainFuck10 are you talking to me? Because no, I’m not wrong. You can look up an eyewitness account of a man on a boat who said the exact same thing. And yes water moving extremely fast from rockfall causing a giant wave can absolutely move up toward a steep hillside. Do you have any idea how fast that water was moving? You don’t know what you’re saying.

[@Solstare]

@@BrainFuck10 “Fritz was the lead author of a study published in 2009 in the journal Pure and Applied Geophysics that recreated the Lituya Bay tsunami using a specialized 1:675 scale laboratory tank mimicking the shape of the bay. The team found that the maximum height of the wave responsible for leveling the trees was around 492 feet (150 m) tall, which makes it taller than any wave crest recorded on Earth.” So it was a 500 foot wave. And the wave then crashed into the opposite side of the shore and the run up from the wave went as high as 1720 feet up the tree line. This information is so easy to find for free I actually can’t believe you would write a long post telling me I’m wrong when you could quite literally just use google.

[@AlexTuduran]

"Those are not mountains, those are waves." - Owright Owrigh Owrih, 2014

[@codijo-myalaskandog122]

Those waves cause allot of damages! If you've ever flew in to Anchorage you can go see the unbelievable damage it's done.

[@muddrudder2656]

How the fudge do I pronounce that name lol

[@AlexTuduran]

@@muddrudder2656 @Nikø Stark knows what's up. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6rTeGOMpMiiotU

[@christianperea7441]

Interstellar Movie a classic

[@chronus9083]

@@codijo-myalaskandog122 whaa?

[@aerynstormcrow]

There was a man and his son on a boat that ended up riding that wave over top of a nearby mountain and ended up in a whole different bay. Someone was seriously watching out for them that day.

[@Justatreecutter]

Jesus.

[@jasminebarratt1809]

Oh my god that's amazing.

[@johnnywad7728]

I watched that same documentary. The dad threw his son a life vest telling him to put it on,and pray.

[@awdwadawda352]

You people always have to find some "bigger message", don't you?

[@DannyHood-j]

You’re saying they lived through it? They should’ve wrote book what God

[@thenarutoguy5655]

Standing in the city looking at the wave towering over skyscrapers would be mind destroying

[@BARTA-OFFICIAL]

I think the city would also be destroyed

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

I'd be trying to wake myself up...

[@MrDlt123]

I remember reading that a boat was picked up by the wave, and carried to the ocean with no major damage (although two other boats were sunk). I cant even imagine being on a boat being carried by a wave hundreds of feet in the air.

[@joshlower1]

The wave was only 50 feet by the time it reached them.

[@williamrosenbloom215]

@@joshlower1 oh ok nbd then just a regular day

[@user-us2cl7lf4b]

The infographics did a video just about that, but I don’t trust their information so idk if it’s a real story

[@Userxyz-z2d]

A recurrent Nightmare I hav...

[@forward_ever_ever2595]

Hey ibwould have probably fainted

[@jimhopkins5078]

He said “300 feet” and I was like, wow! And then he said “1,748”!! 😱😱😱

[@chevyDboyMike]

Same

[@robcrossbow2225]

1720

[@chevyDboyMike]

@@robcrossbow2225 well that makes a big difference...😒

[@robcrossbow2225]

@@chevyDboyMike 😁👍

[@INDRIDCOLD83]

Crazy, that's higher than what most paratroopers in the military jump at. Around 1,100 feet at Ft Bragg.

[@DeadManDesert]

Y'all miss the point ; it happened at night,pitch black and in super cold seas. That's the true nightmare

[@godlovesyousomuch5894]

Night or day the water swelling and being in it is an unbearable thought It overwhelming

[@MariaLanier]

The sun sets at around 10pm in the summertime in that region of Alaska so it would not have been pitch black at all whatsoever

[@garyneilson3075]

Have been hearing about this ever since moving to Alaska decades ago. My brother and others have fished in the area, and say it's an eerie place.... ...

[@UrsulaPainter]

It looks eerie even in the video. Land of Giants.

[@miraclehands9040]

It does have an eerie look/feel.

[@dinarusso3320]

😮 I would imagine it being creepy, Alaska freaks me out anyway because it's so isolated and cold

[@alext2933]

A father and son amazingly survived this wave in a small boat. They were washed over a small island and out to sea. Imagine seeing this on a relaxing fishing trip.

[@xsix7324]

i think it would no longer be relaxing

[@datruthsetufree298]

@@xsix7324 i think i would of died of pure fear 😆

[@johnwalker3044]

Now looking at this huge monster of a tsunami heading straight for you has to be one of the best laxatives ever known to man !!

[@iDropPhats]

It would make for the most terrifying, yet oddly the greatest day of their lives. The day Mother Nature exerted her will onto the world and they witnessed all of her destruction firsthand

[@bigmeatswangin5837]

It was just 50 feet by the time it reached them

[@alfjones6377]

"The biggest wave ever recorded.." me waiting for the recorded video footage of the wave like🥤🥤🥤😶

[@el.capo2092]

Lol right

[@bonzbeasty]

Well there were witnesses sooo

[@ernestomendoza463]

😂what generation are you from😂🤣recorded also means written on paper

[@nickwoyurka6820]

@@ernestomendoza463 what’s paper

[@joeymcdavid3287]

@@bonzbeasty that are dead

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Lat's not forget. A tsunami is not a wave but basically a raised mesa of water that could be a mile long or more.

[@ctdope]

Tsunami is just the Japanese word for tidal wave, nothing extra.

[@wulf67]

@@ctdopeActually, “tsunami” means “harbor wave” and is a catastrophic wave caused by a submarine earthquake, a coastal landslide or a volcanic eruption. Tidal waves are caused by tides. Tsunamis are not.

[@tinyarr]

Chicxulub Tsunami: AM I A JOKE TO YOU? HUH??

[@pocoxtv]

Meanwhile, every surfer: omg I can't believe I lost that wave

[@desertodavid]

🙄

[@dannydonnelly8345]

No, no no no never, no one surfer or otherwise.

[@tecklafurro2040]

Yeah dude 🤟

[@georgewallace9719]

That wave didn't die out,it smashed into everything back and forth for a while.

[@nat0106951]

how cold is the water in alaska?

[@ScruffyWarlord]

Fun fact - there are actually 2 survivors who made it out alive from that wave. Dunno if they're still alive today but they were about 20 years ago when the son gave his testimony. Long story short it was a father and his son who were on their fishing boat in the middle of that bay and they were lucky in that the 1000 foot wave - yes you heard that right, their little boat was lifted up close to 1000 feet above sea level. Luckily they were deep enough in the Bay where the waved lifted them and travelled underneath them sparing their life. Imagine how trippy an experience like that must have been being lifted up that high on a boat.

[@Kingolimar354]

“Trippy”

[@Solstare]

The wave was not 1000 feet high and the boat didn’t get lifted anywhere near 1000 ft. The guy who was on the boat said they were lifted 60 feet.

[@Carl_wheezer222]

Fake ass story

[@adampaul454]

​@@Solstarenever let facts get in the way of a good story

[@keryn.n]

@@adampaul454lol

[@MeeksGD]

This is basically Tidal wave buffed

[@arekd8280]

Exactly

[@GaijinGamerGirl]

If WoW's Frost Mage was a Water Mage instead, every battleground PvP would end in this 😂

[@katiejohnston3563]

Wave: 😊😊💀💀 Us: accept it..

[@LITTLE1994]

Imagine if a wave like that were to be caught on camera. That would be utterly terrifying.

[@TheCoppoy]

Nolan can do that

[@ssssssssssssssssss50]

@@TheCoppoyhe’ll reacreate as it was since he doesn’t like to use cgi

[@Dyltheboy]

Maybe the fact that it wasn’t caught on camera is why it’s the biggest wave… it didn’t happen. It’s hard to measure the wave and going off of peoples’ memory is the easiest way of an overestimate

[@tiger.wolf.2033]

Yes, it would be...if they ever find the camera! 😂😂

[@joannavasquez1220]

Terrifying yes, but can you imagine seeing it up close. In a very strange way exciting?

[@UltramanD8]

Just imagine the wave from interstellar coming directly towards you 😵‍💫

[@SlickRick4EVER]

I’d surf it…

[@richardpoynton4026]

I just did a quick Google search and it said the wave in Interstellar was 4000’ - which is over 1,200 metres - which would make it nearly 2.5 times higher than the wave in this clip. I’d love to see a wave like this in real life - from a very safe distance!

[@KahelGaming]

​@@SlickRick4EVER 🤣

[@juliaburgos6984]

The imppresion, gives you a hart attack,!,interestelar wave???,

[@lewstone5430]

I’d bust a quick nut.

[@gnehsse]

Surfers be salivating at waves this size

[@rodneylidster6861]

600 meters high. 12 Olympic pools end on end. Speed 700 km per hour. 200 meters per second.

[@seanhartel5362]

Christopher Nolan is out there on a raft with his IMAX camera

[@manofbeard]

Cameraman never dies😂

[@ArrBee1]

Those aren't mountains,they're waves - interstellar

[@deem3204]

Because the cameraman never dies.

[@dlynchious1157]

That wouldn't even kill me I'd die from a heart attack well before it got to me

[@queengoddess8552]

Hell y🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@novskha1222]

Fr 💀

[@miriamappelbaum6433]

@@novskha1222 Run for higher ground!!

[@hittman4787]

I with you on that one...🤭

[@chickofmusic001]

I rather have that, than drown.

[@Gemini9298]

I was 7yrs old then, but remember the news of that tragedy.

[@bishal1125]

How old are you now?

[@Gabethedoggo]

we be verifying tsunami wave with this one🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@jeffreyb6165]

It's events like this that make us realize who's in control and how powerless we truly are.

[@Kaidhicksii]

Indeed.

[@jaloncooper3219]

In Jesus mighty name

[@Turkeybaggss]

@@jaloncooper3219 amen

[@thestellarcorpse]

we have a false sense of control we humanity we are literally nothing but a bunch of idiots learned a thing or two. It is these kinda moments that deniers of God Almighty and agnostics and who mocks faith get on there boney knees and ask god to save them.

[@Currency999]

Yes Mother Nature not god lmao people r so delusional

[@arminoleg1624]

My neighbor back the 90’s was in that earthquake. She was a teacher in Alaska at the time. She said the thing she will never forget is the noise the earth made. Like a freight train going through your bedroom

[@lloydchristmas1086]

The craziest earthquake i ever felt was in So Cal the kitchen floor felt like it was literally rolling like small waves . The quake was tiny too it was bizarre. I thought it was huge.

[@arminoleg1624]

@@lloydchristmas1086 I assume your talking about the 94 Northridge earthquake. I was 14 living in the San Fernando valley. That was scary.

[@lloydchristmas1086]

@@arminoleg1624 No this was in around 2011 it was just a minor quake but for whatever reason it felt huge where i was in Huntington Beach.

[@arminoleg1624]

@@lloydchristmas1086 I think I remember that too. The one I won’t forget is the 1994 one. It registered 6.4 and did lots of damage

[@sulaimanblessed2697]

@@arminoleg1624 pls say more about it..am just 90s born child.kindly elaborate what happened in those times

[@melon1224]

Zoink is the only known survivor

[@Silentgunner555]

Crowd member: So uh any of y’all got Moses’ staff?

[@ked4]

That would be like looking up at the top of the Empire State Building, and seeing a wave 300 feet above it

[@resistancelucayanmayo]

One world trade center over 1,700 ft tall

[@fast97z24]

That's some real day after tomorrow shit

[@uglyfxxx6981]

@@fast97z24 seriously. That's the first thing I thought of too 😆

[@tecklafurro2040]

Great observation tbh

[@cheesesticks8800]

@@resistancelucayanmayo definitly didn't choose the world trade center because a certain event with airplanes, definitly

[@badearth1310]

1700ft is roughly 518m for those of us needing the conversion. 👍

[@FirstKingPotato]

It's shown in the video you know.

[@rustysmith5809]

1700 feet is hard to fathom.I would have to see it.

[@mayn90s19]

@@rustysmith5809 You don't wanna do that. Dude imagine someone making some machine called "Death Day" or something where it simulates end-of-world scenarios. Like Yellowstone erupting into a supernova. Or a mega tsunami. Even nuclear bombs.

[@mayn90s19]

Mayne not end of world, but catastrophic nonetheless

[@rustysmith5809]

@@mayn90s19 figuratively speaking

[@mauzymauzy]

The guy on the boat its Zoink

[@huhsz]

From what I understand and from what I had read, that 1720 feet peak in height was achieved when the massive landslide caused by the earthquake slammed into the bay, and the wave itself was realistically around a hundred feet tall or so, basically, imagine the bay is a bathtub, filled with water, when you hop in, there is a tiny or average sized wave created, (in comparison, maybe 1-4 lego figures tall to make it more understandable.) Now imagine that there were people in the bathtub, very tiny people. And to them, every 2 lego figures is around 900-1000 feet tall. I will try to make a simpler explanation, when you slam your hand into a body of water, you can see the splash of water everywhere, imagine the body water is the Lituya Bay, your hand is the landslide, the small splash created, is the initial wave. Basically something like that. Edit: In the most simplest terms possible, the 1720 feet was due to the splash. Not the actual wave itself.

[@wendywoodsdavies]

Please never try and explain anything ever again. You suck at it.. ridiculously complicated explanation 😂

[@taitsmith8521]

No. The "1700 ft." Is the slosh. So, a 300ft wave developed as a result of the land slide, and when it hit land (in a narrow inlet mind you) it sloshed 1700 ft. Up the sides of the mountain. Your bathtub analogy is good, but the difference is that your hand makes the wave, and when the wave hits the sides of the tub it is directed much higher up on the sides of the bathtub.

[@jerithompson6303]

​@taitsmith8521 and your example seemed less patronizing.

[@Aragorn62]

A fishing boat captain and his seven-year-old son, were struck by the wave and lifted hundreds of feet into the air by the swell. Remarkably, both survived with minimal injuries. Now thats one helluva ride!

[@davidsmith385]

The weight of the poop in the boat helped. 😊

[@Aragorn62]

@@davidsmith385 🤣

[@SirPano85]

And the boat was named: "Flying Dutch"

[@frollo5332]

@@Aragorn62pooped in pants

[@nicoleeolee1209]

And at night!! You can't see anything.... you just hear it coming at you! 😱 That must have been horrifying for them!

[@TomArrrrr]

That’s up there with my cousin Larry’s bellyflop at the red roof inn Orlando in ‘96

[@hubertwalters4300]

Yes, I heard about that, legend has it that he knocked all of the water out of the pool.

[@vladvladimirov4399]

Legend has it that the wave was so big it took 2 years before landing in 1998, plummeting Hell In A Cell 1500 feet into the announcers table!

[@brandofoster6195]

😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂

[@hunterbiden7391]

RIP Larry

[@algo6485]

Canon Ball!!!!

[@zboinkgd]

Bro remade tidal wave

[@sashaastacio4327]

1950: we’re gonna die 2024: NAAH THATS POSEIDON ADVENTURE

[@GameN3rdz]

You're dead meat boi you just don't know it yet

[@lukedaniell]

"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza

[@4thegloryofthelord]

And he had Kramer’s golf ball!🤣

[@lukedaniell]

@@4thegloryofthelord Is that a Titleist?🤣

[@pintthereof4598]

I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot

[@__Ryan_]

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@youtubisashoe]

That same wave lifted me and tossed me like a cork

[@swift__]

It’s hard to imagine a wave being that big.. it’s absolutely incredible what the planet is capable of.

[@patilvs5191]

Absolutely crazy stuff right i would have died out of heart attack wave bigger than empire state building😮

[@sculpy2758]

Sounds like you'd be even more amazed at what humans can do. This was probably black budget electromagnetics experimentation. Did you know our owners can literally crack the planet in half with electromagnetics, if they wanted to? Puts their weaponized tsunamis and earthquakes to shame.

[@FennecDigitalArt]

Yup, and we are puny little creatures with huge egos. All 7+ billion of us could be wiped out in an instant if mother nature decided enough is enough.

[@sculpy2758]

@@FennecDigitalArt "Mother nature" is dead. Humans killed it by trying to control the weather. Or did you think all the whiplash weather insanity: flash freezes in Texas and 100+ mountain temps in South American winter, floods following droughts and droughts following floods...is all "nature"? Want to see the long history of weather modification technology patents? They go back over a hundred years and are mostly public filings that anyone can look at. Or you can go back to sleep I suppose.

[@Surprise_Inspection]

It's a great simulation.

[@mrdavidurquhart]

I think it is referred to as a "harbour wave" because it relies on the land form within which it occurs.

[@aprilbrandon3441]

That, must have been scary

[@rj66600]

I went on a cruise in ‘06 and seen this spot. You could see where the trees up the sides of the mountains were took out. It was amazing.

[@yourpapichulo8859]

Show pics

[@walktaarwhate3872]

@@yourpapichulo8859 How’s bro gonna do that 💀

[@yourpapichulo8859]

@@walktaarwhate3872 this thing called social media I think. Just guessing

[@marcusdadawg]

​@@yourpapichulo8859 bro you 80?

[@scarletdamsel3139]

Uh huh

[@Alaskaflyfishing]

He didn’t mention the father and son that were fishing in the bay when it happened. They rode the wave all the way over the crest past 1700 feet. Luckily they both lived and you can watch their interview.

[@sugewhitejacoby8654]

Where is thos interview?

[@bjornyesterday2562]

I saw the interview. They did not ride the 1700' wave that hit the tree line on the shore of the Bay. They rode the crest of a 50'-60' wave that took them over the trees on the island in the middle of the Bay. They were anchored at the time and it snapped their chain

[@bjornyesterday2562]

​@@sugewhitejacoby8654 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eobRmKmofqx5ftU

[@sugewhitejacoby8654]

@Bjorn Yesterday Thank you for this clip. A couple other videos popped up when I went to this clip. How scary!

[@bjornyesterday2562]

@@sugewhitejacoby8654 80 million tons, or 13 Great Pyramids, is what fell at the head of the Bay that day from the earthquake. Holy moly

[@vaska1999]

1720 ft is over half a kilometer! Unimaginable!

[@Mr_Tophatt]

whats even crazier is that people survived this too

[@squirrelscanfly2547]

“Those aren’t mountains… Those are waves.” Cooper in Interstellar.

[@faridamashhood6713]

......................... .................. ut

[@Zeorymer300]

So

[@richardchambers9083]

A man and his son rode it out. Amazing survival story.

[@hellsrizing]

😮

[@rhythmiknoise]

Forgot about that I did see an interview with one of the men long ago when I first learned about this

[@dynodyno6970]

Where could one find this… anything to better imagine what that must have been like 😮

[@richardsanjose3692]

On a surfboard?

[@basskitten7325]

God had blessed them.

[@raymondtorres-gy8uj]

If i'm not mistaken this dude & his son survived on the boat they were on by riding the crazy wave. True story!! I really do think that it's the same wave, story.. 👍

[@robertacosta7695]

Wild Bill rode a Tornado….cant remember if it was an F4 or F5. Just Wild Bill yelling F’in Aye Maybe we’ve never seen an F’in Aye. Scary Scary night guys

[@tagheuerwoods6241]

What’s crazier is that two people who were on a boat survived this

[@rosaisidro4746]

I remember seeing an interview of a father and a son who were in a boat on the coast of Alaska and the wave gave them a raid over the forest, over the treetops and returned them back to the ocean in the same way; incredibly nothing happened to them, neither to them nor to the boat, and they commented that there were two other boats that disappeared😥… It must have been a terrifying experience!😱

[@robcrossbow2225]

A big trip of magic mushrooms

[@Sophisticated113]

How can i find that interview

[@jonnapollard909]

Alaska can be so Dangerous. A Rouge Wave hit them. Knocked about over. but then a another huge wave picked them right back. Nobody lost. Boat fine.

[@rosaisidro4746]

@@Sophisticated113 I saw it in KZbin.

[@Sophisticated113]

@@rosaisidro4746 can you please tell me the title name

[@mrcheshire104]

Alaskan here. My grandma was a little girl when this earthquake happened. She lived nowhere near Lituya Bay, but still experienced the brunt of the actual earthquake. Alaska is extremely susceptible to natural disasters, people. Take it seriously!

[@valthenvega2434]

Wouldn’t doubt it, it’s part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, most land there is particularly seismic from Alaska to Chile

[@SantaBarbaraSongbird]

"Nah, I don't feel like taking natural disasters seriously, especially in Alaska. I'm good" 😆 🤣 Like our instincts won't

[@kylemurray3119]

​@@SantaBarbaraSongbird😂

[@DaveHorton-ii3ko]

Joanna down here, ( above my comment I guess?) She says to that wave...." hey bud, let's party!!!!".......she's definitely not taking it serious,.....so now what?.....😮......oooooooooooooh........danger danger......where's will robinson????? Oooooooooh!.....😮 😉

[@DaveHorton-ii3ko]

Kyle Murray, what's gonna happen ????😮

[@MADSCIENTISTGONESANE6166]

Noah: ALRIGHT, BOYS HERE WE GO AGAIN!

[@TenianMapper]

When you activated "I pay bills" mode for tidal wave:

[@mpireone]

A fisherman and his son witnessed this first hand and survived that incredible catastrophe. While fishing on their boat, they heard a thundering boom towards the mountain, which was part of the mountain collapsing into the lake, seconds later all they saw was a massive wall of water heading towards their boat. Next thing they knew, they were picked up by the crest and started to head out to sea. They were so high, the anchor chain snapped off. Would've been awesome had they caught this event on film?

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Well another is coming 🌊

[@richardsanjose3692]

Or had their surfboards with them.

[@digger5521]

And more believable, snapped an anchor chain ? That's convenient 😅

[@dbsti3006]

​@@digger5521 Why would that not snap an anchor chain? More shitposting from smartasses I guess.

[@jerald6023]

​@@digger5521 & more unbelievable is that people embarass themselves when they don't know wtf they're talking about

[@bigrivtodagled8210]

Our vulnerability in face of natural disasters is so incredibly terrifying.

[@brookinghouseof9457]

Politicians are x50 worse.

[@hansmeiser5812]

In the face of the earth / universe we are those other ants 🥳🐜 We are VERY vulnerable in so many aspects. Enjoy every moment as it could be your last i guess? ❤️‍🔥🦖

[@gavin8200]

@GoFuk Urself u mean Biden?

[@hubertwalters4300]

@GoFuk Urself Trump didn't leave American citizens behind enemy lines, your pos Biden did,now do the right thing and apologize for your ridiculous post.

[@BobbyBimmer]

@@gavin8200 can’t talk with stupid, don’t bother😂

[@acar7421]

That is 50 stories high… that would wipe out my entire province…

[@miggyr7777]

If bro played the creepy sea shanty song, that would've made it more creepy.

[@Kraibotvideo]

"...everything was destroyed. If you liked this video and would like more..." Bro that ending had me dying 😂

[@APsGTG]

Fr 😂😂😂

[@lukerodriguez7908]

pure bulls#it. like the dinosaurs that had been wiped out by a meteor and are now said to be due to climate change. in the end it's just funny.

[@PerSon-xg3zr]

Same vibe as "everyone died, the end."

[@YarikPlayYT]

tidal wave reference

[@michaelvickers89]

Could you imagine standing there seeing a wave that big coming straight at you!? 😩💀

[@garyschultz883]

It's bad but there are lots of worse ways to die .....

[@michaelvickers89]

@@garyschultz883 Such as!? 😳

[@bosspoke]

@@michaelvickers89 Dying by that wave would be scary AF before impact but then you'd die instantly I guess after impact, right? Imagine being slowly killed instead with a lot of pain, and there are numerous ways to be slowly killed. This would literally just be the pain of fear. Being slowly killed is pain of fear and other types of psychological pain, coupled with physical pain.

[@ey3z4ya]

@@bosspoke You would drown, which would not be an instant death but a painful one probably.

[@nhandinh7404]

@@bosspoke yes you would die instantly. That’s basically a brick wall coming at you

[@FarahFeires]

Imagine sailing on your boat and all of the sudden you see this big shadow

[@MosaMan-ik6ei]

I'd just give up

[@junecoulthard8942]

Oh HELL NO lol close my eyes and be gone in a flash..wow thats scary to actually think it really could happen again..no thankyou! ❤

[@Nikkorts]

@@junecoulthard8942 a father and son survived the tsunami by riding on top of it, and ended up landing on the tree in mainland

[@nickcrim6735]

Like the grim reaper sneakin up on you

[@lynnlynn9124]

​@@Nikkortsbut I thought this was a tsunami (just a massive rise in water level not the typical wave that people imagine) in addition to a huge wave caused by the massive displacement of water from the rock/Landslide.

[@sirujylhankangas8215]

I will like this when the quantities are expressed in comprehensive mathematical units 😂

[@therealdeal3672]

The earthquake that caused that tsunami shook for about 10 minutes! That is a freaking long-ass time when the earth is shaking! Californian here. Most earthquakes are less than a minute or two long.

[@dat2ra]

Geologist here. Actually, this post is not accurate. The WAVE was not 1700 ft high; the run-up on the side of the canyon wall was 1700 ft. When the bay got shallow, the water sloshed inland much higher than the actual wave height. Try it in your bath tub.

[@limbeboy7]

Engineer here. The datum was 1700 ft. Deal with it

[@trailbuilder5789]

Shit man, my bathroom is under water now ;-)

[@viktorbirkeland6520]

​@@limbeboy7 IT technician here. That wave would have been lower than the washed out part. I believe it's said the wave was 150 meters high, 400 to 500 feet!

[@vtwin1979]

Surfer here. “I’m stuck in a tree half way up a mountain. Come get me please.”

[@trailbuilder5789]

@@vtwin1979 🤣

[@forbidden1086]

Don't forget that in 1964 Alaska also had the 2nd largest earthquake in recorded history at 9.2 magnitude. It destroyed practically everything within the state and caused massive tsunamis not only all over every coastal region of alaska but also went as far as japan and caused tsunamis and seismic aftershocks all over Alaska and Japan for quite some time. I was born and raised up there and knew personally many people who experienced both of these natural disasters. I couldn't imagine how I would react to being in such a situation myself

[@EdA-qh7qr]

I was up there a few years ago and just out of Skagway you can see a mountain that got cracked in half from that earthquake

[@yodservant]

Lived in Sitka a few years back also on the Big Island of Hawai'i and there are many photos in Hilo documenting the1964 quake

[@sculpy2758]

I wonder if that really was a "natural" disaster. This period of history had frantic black budget, secret next-gen weapons research and testing going on all the time. This was an era where military intelligence in multiple countries were coming to full realization that things like electromagnetic superweapons and human psychic potential were not only real, but fully, secretly exploitable. Today, weather warfare and tectonic weapons are a long-established reality that the peoples of the world continue to ignore, but these are not modern weapons at all. I expect this period of record-breaking "natural" disasters was really a period of rich EM weapon experimentation and the subsequent effects. Or, I guess one can continue to believe that record-breaking storms, droughts, floods, disasters, high temps, low temps, and weather that likes to selectively target food production, year after year after year... is all just crazy "nature". Sometimes when you're surrounded by and looking at "crazy" day after day after year after year, it behooves us to step back sometimes and say "Constant crazy is by definition not normal: time to investigate."

[@ff-gh4gg]

sorry were at least 4 bigger earthquakes since then

[@I_Aced_It]

What a huge- >>>>>TIDAL>>>

[@MemerIsCool]

nah zoink needs to verify this

[@tpstrat14]

Reminds me of the interstellar wave

[@jonaslariosa7303]

The fact that you can say "those aren't mountains, they're waves" moment

[@visitationmartingumarang1261]

My friend:Those aren’t 3000 ft mountains those are 3000 ft waves” Me: “ only the splash was 3000 ft not the wave” My friend: “I hate you 🤬” Me: 😐😶

[@jonaslariosa7303]

@@visitationmartingumarang1261 😆😆

[@robertamansfield3375]

1750 feet!!! Oh my goodness. Tsunamis are terrifying.

[@millertimeast]

The scary thing is, is that the oceans are so big they could probably support waves even bigger than that

[@TheSchmidt62]

I was there in 1984, and the damage was still obvious. I think it was 1500 ft though as you could see clearly where the trees had fallen.

[@vladvladimirov4399]

Yes! I was there in 1998 and the damage was still there from when Hell In A Cell plummeted 1500 feet through the announcers table!

[@noegojimmy]

I remember watching about it but can't remember clearly... Hadn't the wave bounced back and...

[@bens4801]

@@vladvladimirov4399 fuck reddit is leaking once again

[@bad-bunnyblogger8171]

Apparently a dad and his son were out fishing in the bay on their boat and they survived.

[@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4]

yeh but it wouldn't be 1720 feet ,lol that's absurd how they measure it??

[@MrsLyraGyrl]

​@351 Cleveland modified motor the part of the wsvs that carried them was apparently 50 to 60 feet. The wave carried them over the trees.

[@clementpeloquin1131]

@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 The wave was 24 meters high. The reason it got to 500 meters is because it got SPLASHED on the side facing the landslide, before changing paths. The tsunami was never going to reach above 30 meters high, it just splashed. And i don’t think the father and son got it by it, pretty sure they went over it

[@Solstare]

@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 the wave wasn’t 1720 feet high, that was just the maximum height that the wave pushed the water up the tree line

[@Taricus]

@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 They could see how high up the mountains the trees were taken out by the wave.

[@Thebigem]

The Wave smashing onto you would feel like Lizzo jumping out of a Plane and Landing straight on top of you

[@Libroerina]

The RUNUP was 1700 ft. The specific measurement cited is that it caused destruction at up to 1700 ft in elevation on land when it ran into and up a canyon wall. Still mind boggling. But the actual wave wasn’t even 1/3 of that height.

[@tomcollierblognation136]

After seeing millennium force at cedar point. A 300 ft wave would be terrifying. Over 1700 would’ve shocked me to death before it killed me 😂

[@PopADoseYo]

Hahaha same! Millenium still scares me going up the hill, it's high and a nice steady ascent up. The fear stops as we go down though. A tsunami 6x the height of Millenium as you said, I'd be spoiling myself and blacking out haha!

[@7stringst3r]

Word that’s like in those movies

[@l3gendarylag805]

All speculation lol

[@jamesvan2201]

Wait... Are you dying from shock? Or from the wave? 😂

[@N3onJesus]

@@PopADoseYo I hate how there's no side railings on the side up, always felt like I was gonna tumble off the side on the peak of that thing lol

[@gaijininja]

And 64 years later, the scars left by the wave on the hills either side of the bay are still visible.

[@vicvega3614]

bet the animals aren't back either, they're like f*ck that shit

[@mr.opiaticus1317]

That wave was high enough to fail a drug test.

[@Tom-do4vz]

Now this is the ride Bohdi was searching for

[@frmrchristian8488]

I had read about this previously and was somewhat familiar with the details. However, I just picked up on the fact that this insanely scary event happened at NIGHT. Man, that had to be utterly terrifying to those near the epicenter.

[@Qsefthuko4]

was kinda in the middle of no where but yes your not wrong

[@valthenvega2434]

Add to that, it wasn’t a 21st century light-polluted urban sky, it was a 1950’s dark sky Shivering reminder that sea water may look dark even in well-lit oil rigs at night

[@RedShipsofSpainAgain]

Actually in the summer that far north in Alaska it was still daylight due to how long days are in summer at such high northern latitudes. Not nighttime.

[@DrSebby]

July 9th is only 18 days after summer solstice. In that part of Alaska, it would still be fairly light out.

[@DrSebby]

I've been to this bay... twice. We anchored up there en route to Alaska. Can't recall who told us, but one of the survivors reported their boat washing up and over the trees waaay up along the side of the mountain.

[@pablojose4890]

I saw a father and son interviewed that rode out the wave and their boat ended up above the tree line. Another boat disappeared.

[@Nick_Taylor.]

Imagine surfing a 1,700ft wave.

[@vineattacker9841]

This Tusnami : exists Disaster movie writers : 👌

[@rudyhahn6017]

That tidal wave was as tall as the freedom Tower in NYC.

[@rosamontoya9154]

There's a bad cracked volcano off the coast of Africa if it blows it will blow half the volcano off creating a tsunami that will hit the entire east coast of the United States

[@RSAgility]

@@rosamontoya9154 there are many things I’m not looking forward to in the future…. Yellowstone is another… And those are predictable Earthly problems. Dinosaurs got hit hard by a mountain from the void... goosebumps.

[@TheBrushcutter]

@@rosamontoya9154 that would be the Cumbre Veija volcano on La Palma.

[@modernmind74]

The term "tidal wave" is misleading; even though a tsunami's impact upon a coastline is dependent upon the tidal level at the time a tsunami strikes, tsunamis are unrelated to the tides. (Tides result from the gravitational influences of the moon, sun, and planets.) The term "seismic sea wave" is also misleading.

[@justinklenk]

@@modernmind74 Good info. What's misleading about 'seismic sea wave' though?

[@dianemurray6550]

I used to live in AK, and took a boat trip thru that inlet. You can still see the line of death way up on the mountains where nothing ever grew again. The dimensions are mind-blowing.

[@stevenlewandowski3907]

Lmao so some water made the ground barren for 50yrs... lol sure it did 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

[@renzjulienpascual8479]

@@stevenlewandowski3907 well not barren, it uprooted everything and was barren. Over time trees began growing but you can definitely tell where the it happened.

[@ncdozer3103]

@@stevenlewandowski3907 tell me you’ve never taken physics without telling me you’ve never taken physics. F=mv.

[@Taco274x4]

​@@ncdozer3103it's actually: F=ma, where a is the change in velocity over time or a=∆v/∆t What you typed down is not correct.

[@ncdozer3103]

@@Taco274x4 f=ma is force, p=mv is Momentum, ah i see my error lol

[@Valterings]

Aint no way zonk verified it while and earthquake was happening

[@Drcragory]

Just imagine what a bunch of meteors hitting the ocean would do.

[@craigc3259]

You can still see the damage in the bay… above the wave solid pine trees and below ground stripped to the rocks and not any trees… a very humbling site.

[@kodakgreen6047]

*sight

[@treetops6438]

@@kevins4109 I concur 🤓

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

@@kevins4109 indeed.

[@richardquezada693]

@@kodakgreen6047 capital K

[@kodakgreen6047]

@@kevins4109 very good point

[@hurleyfilms2340]

“Those aren’t waves, they’re mountains”

[@kennyhall1939]

Wait is that a interstellar reference?

[@moreflexmoresex3011]

@@kennyhall1939 yes, the exact quote is "those aren't mountains, they're waves."

[@hurleyfilms2340]

@@kennyhall1939 Yeah, I just had it backwards cause in reality they are waves but these waves are like the size of mountains!

[@bigmeatswangin5837]

@@hurleyfilms2340 lol why wouldnt you just fix it??

[@jmaples8226]

Rough waters and tornados are the only 2 things that terrify me.

[@Xbox360CodCams]

That picture of the sailboat gave me a ton of anxiety😂

[@williamstone267]

That's really hard to fathom how destructive that really was. 😭

[@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls]

That's pretty insane. I go hiking really often in a canyon that is about 700' deep at the most. It seems daunting at first. I could only imagine waves more than twice as tall as the walls of the canyon on my way back up. Literally, a mountain of water.

[@whatsmolly5741]

It's been researched alot more after the fact and the consensus is that it probably wasn't anywhere near 1700'. Probably still the tallest wave but not that tall.

[@ishotthesheriffthedeputyididnt]

What canyon?

[@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls]

@@ishotthesheriffthedeputyididnt It's small canyon in Southern Colorado. They don't all have names.

[@ishotthesheriffthedeputyididnt]

@@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls that's cool man. More so asking where it was located. I just touched down @ the grand canyon for the first time. Lol

[@tammy3458]

When u explain it in this kind of detail, it must have been terrifying to witness!

[@jj-eu8ee]

The first test of earthquake weapons was a success.

[@gollygeewillickers]

Was SO stoked up to see your reaction for John meeting the strange man and when he tells you about your past with Dutch n the gang.

[@drearyerie8504]

The trees that got hit with saltwater are literally petrified and still there to this day iirc

[@user-qc4ht2fm9y]

i’d be petrified too if i got hit with a wave that big

[@5446isnotmynumber]

@@user-qc4ht2fm9y good job

[@whiltoecardhonian3054]

I’m just impressed that someone was there to measure it

[@xSonicspeedx]

Or had the time to scale it for the measurement.

[@xSonicspeedx]

@@patrickhorvath2684 we were joking.

[@RobReith]

They can tell by the damage it did. Trees were snapped 1700 ft up slope. So when it broke and the water flooded it made it at least 1700 feet up the mountain. They say the wave was 100 feet tall before it broke I don't know how they would know that.

[@Garrett1240]

@@RobReith they know this by using computer simulations

[@ibrahimouchair8742]

@@Garrett1240 no shit Sherlock