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October 1, 2016
Ten Minutes in Lituya Bay
When he looked outside, the water around his boat was in a state of severe agitation. In the distance he could see the towering mountains that stood at the inland end of the bay, their peaks shaking. He also thought he saw the distant Lituya Glacier tossed up into the air. “I know you can’t ordinarily see that glacier from where I was anchored,” he later told Alaska Sportsman magazine. “People shake their head when I tell them I saw it that night. I can’t help it if they don’t believe me but I know what I saw that night.” • Damn Interesting
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 1, 2016 9:44 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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That graphic, and to a lesser extent the text of the article, are a bit misleading. The figure of 500+ meters is not the height of the wave, but rather the distance it swept up the shores. The wave seems to have been "only" 300' tall. That seems quite horrifying enough to me without getting all hyperbolic.
Posted by: Schill MacGuffin at October 2, 2016 11:10 AM