Unlike tidal waves, tsunamis have nothing to do with gravitational pulls from celestial bodies. They result from natural ...

Explore the factors behind the world's largest tidal waves, including the mystery of the Bay of Fundy's exceptional tides and ...

Tsunami waves often look like walls of water and can attack the shoreline and be dangerous for hours, with waves coming every 5 to 60 minutes. The first wave may not be the largest, and often it ...

Modin remembers ‘tumbling around and not being able to breathe’ once the tsunami hit, comparing the scary situation to being ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout ...

In 1958 for example, the largest tsunami on record struck Lituya Bay in Alaska. The 30 metre high wave was powerful enough to travel more than 500m up the valley sides but, given the remote location, ...

With a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter Scale, it was recorded as the third-largest earthquake ... had not heard much of: tsunami. In Japanese, the word means ‘harbour wave’ – ‘tsu ...

Some events can cast long shadows. The UK is still talking about the storm of 1987 (‘the worst night since the Blitz’), the winter of 1963, the storm floods of 1953, the London smog of ...