[JimSEA]

This photo is of the aftermath of the 2015 landslide generated tsunami However, A tsunami with a record run-up height of 1720 feet occurred in in Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Pretty intereswting. There is a better before-after pic set here http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2015/12/18/detecting-landslides-from-a-few-seismic-wiggles/

Many of the Norweigian fjords (where I traveled many times working aboard a RCCL ship) experienced this as well, 600 foot high waves from a icefall or rockslide. Spectacular scenery, unbelievable.

[combat_boots]

1720’

Wow

[Mase]

Pretty incredible. Here's a before and after shot that shows just how much of the area went into the water.

[T-Bone Texan]

I’m reading all about the 1958 incident in Lituya Bay.

Fascinating, thanks for the great link.

[Delta 21]

Hydraulics is a wonderful thing.

[Night Hides Not]

[PLMerite]

If we’re just hearing about it now, I’m assuming only moose and sasquatch were affected?

[dainbramaged]

Lituya Bay is an incredible place - it has a treacherous, narrow entrance navigated by lining up range markers and entering at slack tide - unless you want to soil yourself, or die.
The French explorer LaPerouse tried it at the wrong time and lost 21 men in a longboat in 1786.
A salmon troller named Edri survived the 1958 tsunami and spent many more years in Southeast Alaska - I knew the owner back in the 80's, not the original skipper. He got crazy drunk and was shot by the Hoonah cops, they left him laying on the dock for several hours but he lived. He later collected a ton of money for that incident.