A recent 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings, stirring memories of the 1958 ...

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 ...

A landslide last fall caused a giant wave not seen in Alaska since a storied 1958 event in Lituya Bay. After a period of heavy rains, a mountainside near Tyndall Glacier collapsed into a fiord of ...

One of those earthquakes, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958 triggered a landslide that sent water 1,720 feet up an adjacent mountainside, one of the highest recorded run-ups ...

Lituya Bay is a place where Mother Nature has always had the upper hand. In 1786, for example, French explorer Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse lost two boats and 21 men trying to chart the ...

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 ...

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 n… ...

The helicopter crashed near Lituya Bay, northwest of Juneau. The helicopter was identified as an Airbus H125, on a long distance trip out of Grand Prairie, Texas. Debris from the aircraft was ...

1958: The tallest wave ever recorded — splashing nearly 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building — explodes down Lituya Bay in the Gulf of Alaska. Lituya Bay is a T-shaped fjord on the ...

Lituya Bay, pictured, is the sight of a Friday helicopter crash that resulted in three people missing. ... Lituya Bay lies about 115 miles west of Juneau on the coast of the Gulf of Alaska.