A 1,578-foot tsunami in Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord was the second largest ever recorded, driven by climate change.

Tsunamis don’t look the way we picture them. Most people, if they imagined one coming, would picture a towering wall of dark water. The reality is stranger and, in some ways, more terrifying: a ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...

A tsunami that struck an Alaskan fjord in 2025 sloshed higher than the height of the top floor of One World Trade Center in New York, new research shows. The study, published May 6 in the journal ...

Back in August of 2025, something massive happened in Alaska. Deep in the Tracy Arm, a stunning fjord southeast of Juneau, more than two billion cubic feet of earth collapsed, falling into the ocean ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, ...

South Sawyer Glacier at the end of Tracy Arm Fjord, where the second-largest tsunami on record occurred. Photo Credit: Alexandre.ROSA/Shutterstock.com A tsunami ...

JUNEAU, Alaska – Just last year, a massive landslide in Alaska triggered a megatsunami that researchers have now mapped and analyzed—identifying it as the second-highest tsunami wave ever recorded. In ...