The Biggest Wave Ever Recorded
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This was the biggest wave ever recorded in all of history.
And scientists are worried it could happen again...
The biggest wave ever recorded was documented in Lituya Bay, in the southeast of Alaska, when an earthquake triggered a series of events that resulted in a mega tsunami. History and science books consider it to be the largest tsunami of modern times.
On July 9th, 1958, at 10:15PM, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake caused a rock slide of around 40 million cubic yards in the Gilbert Inlet. Rocks, glaciers, and other debris fell from an altitude of approximately 3,000 feet, and the consequences were brutal.
The event resulted in the highest wave in recorded history. The mega tsunami itself measured 300 feet high, but the following breaking wave became much bigger. As the giant mountain of water traveled across the entire length of Lituya Bay, it reached a peak height of 1,720 feet near the Gilbert Inlet, then destroyed everything around it.
The fact that this wave happened at night makes it even scarier.
Woah 😮
Possibly the only thankful thing in this scenario is that it happened at night when most children would've been asleep. Horrific.
At Lituya Bay, AK, on July 9th, the sunset isn't until 10:13pm and last light is 11:25pm. They could see the tsunami coming.
It does?
Which is why I'm not buying their estimates at all on what it's actual height was, especially at that time.
I’m going to be honest, if I saw this shit coming towards me, I’d just close my eyes and accept my fate.
That's certainly what they do in movies. .
You better be praying because you’re probably fixing to see God
Weak... can't you just enjoy surfing above it?
Pshhh thats pussy stuff. Id just rip my front door off and duck dive it. EZ clap
@@dmac2899 Why would you spend your last moments doing something so pointless? God doesn’t exist.
Cooper:
"Those aren't mountains... they're waves."
Interstellar right?
@@BrotatoSUSSY Cooper : I love you, forever. You hear me? I love you forever. And I'm coming back. I'm coming back.
Can I just point out of those pictures was straight up a mountain with the colours changed to make it look more wave-like
@@Selatapey The first picture was part of the mountain of Lituya Bay that was damaged by the mega-tsunami. It looks like it was a picture cropped from a wikpedia pic on the incident.
@@Fernandez218 ohhh I see
Y'all miss the point ; it happened at night,pitch black and in super cold seas. That's the true nightmare
Night or day the water swelling and being in it is an unbearable thought It overwhelming
The sun sets at around 10pm in the summertime in that region of Alaska so it would not have been pitch black at all whatsoever
Not up in Alaska at that time of year. Still light in the sky.
No I think you're missing the point. It's a 1700 ft high wave. Doesn't matter if it's dark, light, warm weather or cold. That thing's gonna crush you. Can't run away, can't hide. Just water stacked 500 metres high there to make you disappear forever.
Except in Alaska in the summer it doesn't get pitch black at night. They have sunlight 24 hrs a day. Duh.
1720 ft. For reference, the Empire State Building is 1454 ft to the tip. I don't think running was an option.
The wave itself wasn’t 1720 feet, that’s just how high the water was pushed up the tree line
@@Solstare thank you. that makes so much more sense
nope you’re wrong! The wave directly hit a steep hillside, it’s not gonna push water up a steep hillside, the wave has to peak ON the hillside and it literally imprinted itself on the hill the peak and angle of decline is well documented you can see diagrams based on the washed up tree line showing the exact shape of the wave with half of the hillside washed out
@@BRAINFxck10 are you talking to me? Because no, I’m not wrong. You can look up an eyewitness account of a man on a boat who said the exact same thing. And yes water moving extremely fast from rockfall causing a giant wave can absolutely move up toward a steep hillside. Do you have any idea how fast that water was moving? You don’t know what you’re saying.
@@BRAINFxck10 “Fritz was the lead author of a study published in 2009 in the journal Pure and Applied Geophysics that recreated the Lituya Bay tsunami using a specialized 1:675 scale laboratory tank mimicking the shape of the bay. The team found that the maximum height of the wave responsible for leveling the trees was around 492 feet (150 m) tall, which makes it taller than any wave crest recorded on Earth.”
So it was a 500 foot wave. And the wave then crashed into the opposite side of the shore and the run up from the wave went as high as 1720 feet up the tree line. This information is so easy to find for free I actually can’t believe you would write a long post telling me I’m wrong when you could quite literally just use google.
He said “300 feet” and I was like, wow!
And then he said “1,748”!! 😱😱😱
Same
1720
@@robcrossbow2225 well that makes a big difference...😒
@@chevyDboyMike 😁👍
Crazy, that's higher than what most paratroopers in the military jump at. Around 1,100 feet at Ft Bragg.
"Those are not mountains, those are waves."
- Owright Owrigh Owrih, 2014
Those waves cause allot of damages! If you've ever flew in to Anchorage you can go see the unbelievable damage it's done.
How the fudge do I pronounce that name lol
@@muddrudder2656 @Nikø Stark knows what's up. ua-cam.com/video/mypG0Vocols/v-deo.html
Interstellar Movie a classic
@@codijo-myalaskandog122 whaa?
Florida man: I can surf that.
😂
Hawaiian man: No, you can't.
Fr tho you might aswell try, you're defo dead either way
If a Florida man could really say that he can surf at 500 ft wave good luck in getting a helicopter to fly that high unsuccessfully drop you into the wave hopefully you will live😅😅😅
😂😂😂
"The biggest wave ever recorded.." me waiting for the recorded video footage of the wave like🥤🥤🥤😶
Lol right
Well there were witnesses sooo
😂what generation are you from😂🤣recorded also means written on paper
@@ernestomendoza463 what’s paper
@@bonzbeasty that are dead
A father and son amazingly survived this wave in a small boat. They were washed over a small island and out to sea. Imagine seeing this on a relaxing fishing trip.
i think it would no longer be relaxing
@@xsix7324 i think i would of died of pure fear 😆
Now looking at this huge monster of a tsunami heading straight for you has to be one of the best laxatives ever known to man !!
It would make for the most terrifying, yet oddly the greatest day of their lives. The day Mother Nature exerted her will onto the world and they witnessed all of her destruction firsthand
It was just 50 feet by the time it reached them
I remember reading that a boat was picked up by the wave, and carried to the ocean with no major damage (although two other boats were sunk). I cant even imagine being on a boat being carried by a wave hundreds of feet in the air.
The wave was only 50 feet by the time it reached them.
@@joshlower1 oh ok nbd then just a regular day
The infographics did a video just about that, but I don’t trust their information so idk if it’s a real story
A recurrent Nightmare I hav...
Hey ibwould have probably fainted
There was a man and his son on a boat that ended up riding that wave over top of a nearby mountain and ended up in a whole different bay. Someone was seriously watching out for them that day.
Jesus.
Oh my god that's amazing.
I watched that same documentary. The dad threw his son a life vest telling him to put it on,and pray.
You people always have to find some "bigger message", don't you?
You’re saying they lived through it? They should’ve wrote book what God
Meanwhile, every surfer: omg I can't believe I lost that wave
🙄
No, no no no never, no one surfer or otherwise.
Yeah dude 🤟
That wave didn't die out,it smashed into everything back and forth for a while.
how cold is the water in alaska?
Fun fact - there are actually 2 survivors who made it out alive from that wave. Dunno if they're still alive today but they were about 20 years ago when the son gave his testimony. Long story short it was a father and his son who were on their fishing boat in the middle of that bay and they were lucky in that the 1000 foot wave - yes you heard that right, their little boat was lifted up close to 1000 feet above sea level. Luckily they were deep enough in the Bay where the waved lifted them and travelled underneath them sparing their life. Imagine how trippy an experience like that must have been being lifted up that high on a boat.
“Trippy”
The wave was not 1000 feet high and the boat didn’t get lifted anywhere near 1000 ft. The guy who was on the boat said they were lifted 60 feet.
Fake ass story
@@Solstarenever let facts get in the way of a good story
@@adampaul454lol
Imagine if a wave like that were to be caught on camera. That would be utterly terrifying.
Nolan can do that
@@TheCoppoyhe’ll reacreate as it was since he doesn’t like to use cgi
Maybe the fact that it wasn’t caught on camera is why it’s the biggest wave… it didn’t happen. It’s hard to measure the wave and going off of peoples’ memory is the easiest way of an overestimate
Yes, it would be...if they ever find the camera! 😂😂
Terrifying yes, but can you imagine seeing it up close. In a very strange way exciting?
What a huge-
>>>>>TIDAL>>>
That wouldn't even kill me
I'd die from a heart attack well before it got to me
Hell y🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Fr 💀
@@novskha1222 Run for higher ground!!
I with you on that one...🤭
I rather have that, than drown.
That would be like looking up at the top of the Empire State Building, and seeing a wave 300 feet above it
One world trade center over 1,700 ft tall
That's some real day after tomorrow shit
@@fast97z24 seriously. That's the first thing I thought of too 😆
Great observation tbh
@@Mayoyaquiwarrior definitly didn't choose the world trade center because a certain event with airplanes, definitly
Just imagine the wave from interstellar coming directly towards you 😵💫
I’d surf it…
I just did a quick Google search and it said the wave in Interstellar was 4000’ - which is over 1,200 metres - which would make it nearly 2.5 times higher than the wave in this clip.
I’d love to see a wave like this in real life - from a very safe distance!
@@SlickRick4EVER 🤣
The imppresion, gives you a hart attack,!,interestelar wave???,
I’d bust a quick nut.
Lat's not forget. A tsunami is not a wave but basically a raised mesa of water that could be a mile long or more.
Tsunami is just the Japanese word for tidal wave, nothing extra.
@@ctdopeActually, “tsunami” means “harbor wave” and is a catastrophic wave caused by a submarine earthquake, a coastal landslide or a volcanic eruption. Tidal
waves are caused by tides. Tsunamis are not.
@@ctdopeThe comment you replied to doesn’t mention anything about the origins of the word. And it does not mean tidal wave.
@@13_cmi Look up the translation for tidal wave in Japanese. Simple.
@@ctdopeYes, but in English it means “a long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake or other disturbance”
Christopher Nolan is out there on a raft with his IMAX camera
Cameraman never dies😂
Those aren't mountains,they're waves - interstellar
Because the cameraman never dies.
Standing in the city looking at the wave towering over skyscrapers would be mind destroying
I think the city would also be destroyed
I'd be trying to wake myself up...
@@hollywoodpineapple8337definitely
I've literally had so many nightmares where that happens. I can't imagine that happening in real life. I think I would go into cardiac arrest omg
@@malinia.20dreams are something God can use to speak to us
It’s hard to imagine a wave being that big.. it’s absolutely incredible what the planet is capable of.
Absolutely crazy stuff right i would have died out of heart attack wave bigger than empire state building😮
Sounds like you'd be even more amazed at what humans can do. This was probably black budget electromagnetics experimentation.
Did you know our owners can literally crack the planet in half with electromagnetics, if they wanted to?
Puts their weaponized tsunamis and earthquakes to shame.
Yup, and we are puny little creatures with huge egos. All 7+ billion of us could be wiped out in an instant if mother nature decided enough is enough.
@@FennecDigitalArt "Mother nature" is dead. Humans killed it by trying to control the weather.
Or did you think all the whiplash weather insanity: flash freezes in Texas and 100+ mountain temps in South American winter, floods following droughts and droughts following floods...is all "nature"?
Want to see the long history of weather modification technology patents? They go back over a hundred years and are mostly public filings that anyone can look at.
Or you can go back to sleep I suppose.
It's a great simulation.
1750 feet!!! Oh my goodness. Tsunamis are terrifying.
That’s up there with my cousin Larry’s bellyflop at the red roof inn Orlando in ‘96
Yes, I heard about that, legend has it that he knocked all of the water out of the pool.
Legend has it that the wave was so big it took 2 years before landing in 1998, plummeting Hell In A Cell 1500 feet into the announcers table!
😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂
RIP Larry
Canon Ball!!!!
My neighbor back the 90’s was in that earthquake. She was a teacher in Alaska at the time. She said the thing she will never forget is the noise the earth made. Like a freight train going through your bedroom
The craziest earthquake i ever felt was in So Cal the kitchen floor felt like it was literally rolling like small waves . The quake was tiny too it was bizarre. I thought it was huge.
@@lloydchristmas1086 I assume your talking about the 94 Northridge earthquake. I was 14 living in the San Fernando valley. That was scary.
@@arminoleg1624 No this was in around 2011 it was just a minor quake but for whatever reason it felt huge where i was in Huntington Beach.
@@lloydchristmas1086 I think I remember that too. The one I won’t forget is the 1994 one. It registered 6.4 and did lots of damage
@@arminoleg1624 pls say more about it..am just 90s born child.kindly elaborate what happened in those times
A fishing boat captain and his seven-year-old son, were struck by the wave and lifted hundreds of feet into the air by the swell. Remarkably, both survived with minimal injuries. Now thats one helluva ride!
The weight of the poop in the boat helped. 😊
@@davidsmith385 🤣
And the boat was named: "Flying Dutch"
@@Dav_Rockpooped in pants
And at night!! You can't see anything.... you just hear it coming at you! 😱 That must have been horrifying for them!
Have been hearing about this ever since moving to Alaska decades ago. My brother and others have fished in the area, and say it's an eerie place.... ...
It looks eerie even in the video. Land of Giants.
It does have an eerie look/feel.
😮 I would imagine it being creepy, Alaska freaks me out anyway because it's so isolated and cold
"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
- George Costanza
And he had Kramer’s golf ball!🤣
@@4thegloryofthelord Is that a Titleist?🤣
I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
That same wave lifted me and tossed me like a cork
1700ft is roughly 518m for those of us needing the conversion. 👍
It's shown in the video you know.
1700 feet is hard to fathom.I would have to see it.
@@rustysmith5809 You don't wanna do that.
Dude imagine someone making some machine called "Death Day" or something where it simulates end-of-world scenarios. Like Yellowstone erupting into a supernova. Or a mega tsunami. Even nuclear bombs.
Mayne not end of world, but catastrophic nonetheless
@@mayn90s19 figuratively speaking
A man and his son rode it out. Amazing survival story.
😮
Forgot about that I did see an interview with one of the men long ago when I first learned about this
Where could one find this… anything to better imagine what that must have been like 😮
On a surfboard?
God had blessed them.
I was 7yrs old then, but remember the news of that tragedy.
How old are you now?
@@bishal1125don’t you know how to calculate such things?
It's events like this that make us realize who's in control and how powerless we truly are.
Indeed.
In Jesus mighty name
@@jaloncooper3219 amen
we have a false sense of control we humanity we are literally nothing but a bunch of idiots learned a thing or two. It is these kinda moments that deniers of God Almighty and agnostics and who mocks faith get on there boney knees and ask god to save them.
Yes Mother Nature not god lmao people r so delusional
I went on a cruise in ‘06 and seen this spot. You could see where the trees up the sides of the mountains were took out. It was amazing.
Show pics
@@yourpapichulo8859 How’s bro gonna do that 💀
@@walktaarwhate3872 this thing called social media I think. Just guessing
@@yourpapichulo8859 bro you 80?
Uh huh
Imagine sailing on your boat and all of the sudden you see this big shadow
I'd just give up
Oh HELL NO lol close my eyes and be gone in a flash..wow thats scary to actually think it really could happen again..no thankyou! ❤
@@junecoulthard8942 a father and son survived the tsunami by riding on top of it, and ended up landing on the tree in mainland
Like the grim reaper sneakin up on you
@@Nikkortsbut I thought this was a tsunami (just a massive rise in water level not the typical wave that people imagine) in addition to a huge wave caused by the massive displacement of water from the rock/Landslide.
600 meters high. 12 Olympic pools end on end. Speed 700 km per hour. 200 meters per second.
He didn’t mention the father and son that were fishing in the bay when it happened. They rode the wave all the way over the crest past 1700 feet. Luckily they both lived and you can watch their interview.
Where is thos interview?
I saw the interview. They did not ride the 1700' wave that hit the tree line on the shore of the Bay. They rode the crest of a 50'-60' wave that took them over the trees on the island in the middle of the Bay. They were anchored at the time and it snapped their chain
@@sugewhitejacoby8654 ua-cam.com/video/DUngvrIGFHs/v-deo.html
@Bjorn Yesterday Thank you for this clip. A couple other videos popped up when I went to this clip.
How scary!
@@sugewhitejacoby8654 80 million tons, or 13 Great Pyramids, is what fell at the head of the Bay that day from the earthquake. Holy moly
I remember seeing an interview of a father and a son who were in a boat on the coast of Alaska and the wave gave them a raid over the forest, over the treetops and returned them back to the ocean in the same way; incredibly nothing happened to them, neither to them nor to the boat, and they commented that there were two other boats that disappeared😥… It must have been a terrifying experience!😱
A big trip of magic mushrooms
How can i find that interview
Alaska can be so Dangerous. A Rouge Wave hit them. Knocked about over. but then a another huge wave picked them right back. Nobody lost. Boat fine.
@@Sophisticated113 I saw it in UA-cam.
@@rosaisidro4746 can you please tell me the title name
Could you imagine standing there seeing a wave that big coming straight at you!? 😩💀
It's bad but there are lots of worse ways to die .....
@@garyschultz883
Such as!? 😳
@@michaelvickers89 Dying by that wave would be scary AF before impact but then you'd die instantly I guess after impact, right? Imagine being slowly killed instead with a lot of pain, and there are numerous ways to be slowly killed. This would literally just be the pain of fear. Being slowly killed is pain of fear and other types of psychological pain, coupled with physical pain.
@@bosspoke You would drown, which would not be an instant death but a painful one probably.
@@bosspoke yes you would die instantly. That’s basically a brick wall coming at you
The earthquake that caused that tsunami shook for about 10 minutes! That is a freaking long-ass time when the earth is shaking! Californian here. Most earthquakes are less than a minute or two long.
"...everything was destroyed. If you liked this video and would like more..." Bro that ending had me dying 😂
Fr 😂😂😂
pure bulls#it. like the dinosaurs that had been wiped out by a meteor and are now said to be due to climate change. in the end it's just funny.
Same vibe as "everyone died, the end."
I had read about this previously and was somewhat familiar with the details. However, I just picked up on the fact that this insanely scary event happened at NIGHT. Man, that had to be utterly terrifying to those near the epicenter.
was kinda in the middle of no where but yes your not wrong
Add to that, it wasn’t a 21st century light-polluted urban sky, it was a 1950’s dark sky
Shivering reminder that sea water may look dark even in well-lit oil rigs at night
Actually in the summer that far north in Alaska it was still daylight due to how long days are in summer at such high northern latitudes. Not nighttime.
July 9th is only 18 days after summer solstice. In that part of Alaska, it would still be fairly light out.
I've been to this bay... twice. We anchored up there en route to Alaska. Can't recall who told us, but one of the survivors reported their boat washing up and over the trees waaay up along the side of the mountain.
After seeing millennium force at cedar point. A 300 ft wave would be terrifying. Over 1700 would’ve shocked me to death before it killed me 😂
Hahaha same! Millenium still scares me going up the hill, it's high and a nice steady ascent up. The fear stops as we go down though.
A tsunami 6x the height of Millenium as you said, I'd be spoiling myself and blacking out haha!
Word that’s like in those movies
All speculation lol
Wait... Are you dying from shock? Or from the wave? 😂
@@PopADoseYo I hate how there's no side railings on the side up, always felt like I was gonna tumble off the side on the peak of that thing lol
The wave itself wasnt as high as this video suggests. It was in an inlet. Ever sloshed around in a bath? That is the same effect. The wave traveled across the bay, arrived at the other side and pushed its way uo the hillside. The wave was big, but don't be thinking it was a wave 1720ft high. This short video paints the wrong picture.
The video does say the wave was 300 ft tall
And yes, most run up heights are a bit dubious due to run up being more than the wave height usually is
But it's also the most reliable way to measure a wave, as, there's not really any other
@@glauberglousger956 Yeah, I just think a lot of people envision a wave across the water 1700+ ft high. When it was the energy that pushed it up that high on the opposite side of the valley.
“Those aren’t mountains… Those are waves.” Cooper in Interstellar.
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So
A fisherman and his son witnessed this first hand and survived that incredible catastrophe. While fishing on their boat, they heard a thundering boom towards the mountain, which was part of the mountain collapsing into the lake, seconds later all they saw was a massive wall of water heading towards their boat. Next thing they knew, they were picked up by the crest and started to head out to sea. They were so high, the anchor chain snapped off. Would've been awesome had they caught this event on film?
Well another is coming 🌊
Or had their surfboards with them.
And more believable, snapped an anchor chain ? That's convenient 😅
@@digger5521 Why would that not snap an anchor chain? More shitposting from smartasses I guess.
@@digger5521 & more unbelievable is that people embarass themselves when they don't know wtf they're talking about
Alaskan here. My grandma was a little girl when this earthquake happened. She lived nowhere near Lituya Bay, but still experienced the brunt of the actual earthquake. Alaska is extremely susceptible to natural disasters, people. Take it seriously!
Wouldn’t doubt it, it’s part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, most land there is particularly seismic from Alaska to Chile
"Nah, I don't feel like taking natural disasters seriously, especially in Alaska. I'm good"
😆 🤣 Like our instincts won't
@@SantaBarbaraSongbird😂
Joanna down here, ( above my comment I guess?) She says to that wave...." hey bud, let's party!!!!".......she's definitely not taking it serious,.....so now what?.....😮......oooooooooooooh........danger danger......where's will robinson????? Oooooooooh!.....😮 😉
Kyle Murray, what's gonna happen ????😮
What a nice level. I sure hope zoink verifies it
That German guy who surfed a 115 foot wave:
*_Time for a new record!_*
He starts planting dynamite in the side of a cliff
Or he could wait for the next earthquake in Alaska.
Pardon me? 115 FEET!!?!???
The fact that you can say "those aren't mountains, they're waves" moment
My friend:Those aren’t 3000 ft mountains those are 3000 ft waves”
Me: “ only the splash was 3000 ft not the wave”
My friend: “I hate you 🤬”
Me: 😐😶
@@visitationmartingumarang1261 😆😆
I was there in 1984, and the damage was still obvious. I think it was 1500 ft though as you could see clearly where the trees had fallen.
Yes! I was there in 1998 and the damage was still there from when Hell In A Cell plummeted 1500 feet through the announcers table!
I remember watching about it but can't remember clearly...
Hadn't the wave bounced back and...
@@vladvladimirov4399 fuck reddit is leaking once again
If it happened in 1958, and was at night in the dark, how were the tsunami and breaking wave measurements even accurately documented?
Probably based off the damage it dealt and it went over a saddle between two mountains
It wasn't dark at that time of night in AK, but the wave wiped every tree off the mountain it climbed. I've been in that bay many times over the years, and the line is still easily visible. Old growth trees above it, young trees and brush below.
Geologist here. Actually, this post is not accurate. The WAVE was not 1700 ft high; the run-up on the side of the canyon wall was 1700 ft. When the bay got shallow, the water sloshed inland much higher than the actual wave height. Try it in your bath tub.
Engineer here. The datum was 1700 ft. Deal with it
Shit man, my bathroom is under water now ;-)
@@limbeboy7 IT technician here. That wave would have been lower than the washed out part. I believe it's said the wave was 150 meters high, 400 to 500 feet!
Surfer here.
“I’m stuck in a tree half way up a mountain. Come get me please.”
@@vtwin1979 🤣
Our vulnerability in face of natural disasters is so incredibly terrifying.
In the face of the earth / universe we are those other ants 🥳🐜
We are VERY vulnerable in so many aspects.
Enjoy every moment as it could be your last i guess? ❤️🔥🦖
@GoFuk Urself u mean Biden?
@GoFuk Urself Trump didn't leave American citizens behind enemy lines, your pos Biden did,now do the right thing and apologize for your ridiculous post.
@@gavin8200 can’t talk with stupid, don’t bother😂
@@hubertwalters4300 and it was you republicans who put them in danger in the first place by being pro war nutjobs.
It wasn’t even Afghan who did anything to us…
Just Remember you have three fingers pointing at you when you point yours at others…
Apparently a dad and his son were out fishing in the bay on their boat and they survived.
yeh but it wouldn't be 1720 feet ,lol that's absurd how they measure it??
@351 Cleveland modified motor the part of the wsvs that carried them was apparently 50 to 60 feet. The wave carried them over the trees.
@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 The wave was 24 meters high. The reason it got to 500 meters is because it got SPLASHED on the side facing the landslide, before changing paths. The tsunami was never going to reach above 30 meters high, it just splashed. And i don’t think the father and son got it by it, pretty sure they went over it
@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 the wave wasn’t 1720 feet high, that was just the maximum height that the wave pushed the water up the tree line
@@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4 They could see how high up the mountains the trees were taken out by the wave.
*Time to go get ma 80s Morey Boogie back outta tha shed..*
That's pretty insane. I go hiking really often in a canyon that is about 700' deep at the most. It seems daunting at first. I could only imagine waves more than twice as tall as the walls of the canyon on my way back up. Literally, a mountain of water.
It's been researched alot more after the fact and the consensus is that it probably wasn't anywhere near 1700'. Probably still the tallest wave but not that tall.
What canyon?
@@ishotthesheriffthedeputyididnt It's small canyon in Southern Colorado. They don't all have names.
@@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls that's cool man. More so asking where it was located. I just touched down @ the grand canyon for the first time. Lol
When u explain it in this kind of detail, it must have been terrifying to witness!
Exactly what the biblical flood was
You can still see the damage in the bay… above the wave solid pine trees and below ground stripped to the rocks and not any trees… a very humbling site.
*sight
@@kevins4109 I concur 🤓
@@kevins4109 indeed.
@@kodakgreen6047 capital K
@@kevins4109 very good point
Me asking the tsunami: English or Spanish
And 64 years later, the scars left by the wave on the hills either side of the bay are still visible.
bet the animals aren't back either, they're like f*ck that shit
The wave scoured the hills directly across from the landslide up to 1700 ft, thats not the wave height. It splashed up to that height. It was 300 ft tall traveling down the bay
Yes let’s keep just a little reality in this story.
A 300ft high wave is frightening enough, to be fair..!!
@@mr.t5262 Absolutely. Beyond. Terrifying.
I was just calling out the misrepresentation of a 1700 ft wave
@@TheFatblob25 👍
Thanks for clarify. Something didn't add up to me...
That tidal wave was as tall as the freedom Tower in NYC.
There's a bad cracked volcano off the coast of Africa if it blows it will blow half the volcano off creating a tsunami that will hit the entire east coast of the United States
@@rosamontoya9154 there are many things I’m not looking forward to in the future….
Yellowstone is another…
And those are predictable Earthly problems.
Dinosaurs got hit hard by a mountain from the void... goosebumps.
@@rosamontoya9154 that would be the Cumbre Veija volcano on La Palma.
The term "tidal wave" is misleading; even though a tsunami's impact upon a coastline is dependent upon the tidal level at the time a tsunami strikes, tsunamis are unrelated to the tides. (Tides result from the gravitational influences of the moon, sun, and planets.) The term "seismic sea wave" is also misleading.
@@modernmind74
Good info. What's misleading about 'seismic sea wave' though?
Sinkholes, Tidal Waves/Tsunamis, and tornadoes are the most wildly unpredictable disaster situations
I used to live in AK, and took a boat trip thru that inlet. You can still see the line of death way up on the mountains where nothing ever grew again. The dimensions are mind-blowing.
Lmao so some water made the ground barren for 50yrs... lol sure it did 🤣🤦🏻♂️
@@BlockchainBullwark well not barren, it uprooted everything and was barren. Over time trees began growing but you can definitely tell where the it happened.
@@BlockchainBullwark tell me you’ve never taken physics without telling me you’ve never taken physics. F=mv.
@@ncdozer3103it's actually:
F=ma, where a is the change in velocity over time or a=∆v/∆t
What you typed down is not correct.
@@Taco274x4 f=ma is force, p=mv is Momentum, ah i see my error lol
Don't forget that in 1964 Alaska also had the 2nd largest earthquake in recorded history at 9.2 magnitude. It destroyed practically everything within the state and caused massive tsunamis not only all over every coastal region of alaska but also went as far as japan and caused tsunamis and seismic aftershocks all over Alaska and Japan for quite some time. I was born and raised up there and knew personally many people who experienced both of these natural disasters. I couldn't imagine how I would react to being in such a situation myself
I was up there a few years ago and just out of Skagway you can see a mountain that got cracked in half from that earthquake
Lived in Sitka a few years back also on the Big Island of Hawai'i and there are many photos in Hilo documenting the1964 quake
I wonder if that really was a "natural" disaster. This period of history had frantic black budget, secret next-gen weapons research and testing going on all the time. This was an era where military intelligence in multiple countries were coming to full realization that things like electromagnetic superweapons and human psychic potential were not only real, but fully, secretly exploitable.
Today, weather warfare and tectonic weapons are a long-established reality that the peoples of the world continue to ignore, but these are not modern weapons at all. I expect this period of record-breaking "natural" disasters was really a period of rich EM weapon experimentation and the subsequent effects.
Or, I guess one can continue to believe that record-breaking storms, droughts, floods, disasters, high temps, low temps, and weather that likes to selectively target food production, year after year after year... is all just crazy "nature".
Sometimes when you're surrounded by and looking at "crazy" day after day after year after year, it behooves us to step back sometimes and say "Constant crazy is by definition not normal: time to investigate."
sorry were at least 4 bigger earthquakes since then
Didn’t destroy most of the state. Not mech happened north of talkeetna
I saw a father and son interviewed that rode out the wave and their boat ended up above the tree line. Another boat disappeared.
Above the tree line, I didn’t even even think of that …that is so far up that you’re looking down at the trees 🌲 🌲 🌲
WOW that’s really scary !!!
Chicxulub Tsunami: AM I A JOKE TO YOU? HUH??
I’m just impressed that someone was there to measure it
Or had the time to scale it for the measurement.
@@patrickhorvath2684 we were joking.
They can tell by the damage it did. Trees were snapped 1700 ft up slope. So when it broke and the water flooded it made it at least 1700 feet up the mountain. They say the wave was 100 feet tall before it broke I don't know how they would know that.
@@RobReith they know this by using computer simulations
@@Garrett1240 no shit Sherlock
“Those aren’t waves, they’re mountains”
Wait is that a interstellar reference?
@@kennyhall1939 yes, the exact quote is "those aren't mountains, they're waves."
@@kennyhall1939 Yeah, I just had it backwards cause in reality they are waves but these waves are like the size of mountains!
@@hurleyfilms2340 lol why wouldnt you just fix it??
The pictures in this movie are incorrect. Persons who don't know tsunami painted them.
Cycle (not height) of tsunami wave is very long, so shape of the wave is different with normal wave. Tsunami is powerful even if it's only 1 meter height, because cycle is very long.
Alaska has got the Highest Wave- New Hampshire has got the Highest Wind Speed ever recorded-
California has Got The Hottest Place Record- Death Valley.
America is a Unique & Beautiful Place that A Lot of People Want to Destroy. Certain People here in America Claim to care about "The Environment" but they know nothing about Where They Live, How Original Our Nation is....
Certain People are Hypocritical Anti American Liars who want it all for themselves & they'll sacrifice "Both Sides" to get it all. From Sea To Shining Sea.
I'm With Opposition to this horrible Administration/ Government. I want to Preserve & Conserve our Great Country. No Time to Be Liberal about things now- Damage has been done & we need to make America Great Again. Keep it At A Great Level At All Times. Conservatives want this. Nothing more.
Which side are you on?
Not this again. :-(
Just because water reaches trees in a certain height doesn’t mean the wave crest had that height. Water can flow up a mountain, you know? Speed and sheer mass are enough for that, height is not necessary.
If you needed a 2m wave to go over a 2m wall, no harbor would ever have to worry.
The wave itself was about 200 meters.
@@jimsagubigula7337 More like 50 at most. A 200 m wave hitting a mountain slope would go up way higher than 500 meters.
@@magicmulder The simulations show 200.
Man I wish we had a 4k recording of that wave... also why I would rather live inland the ocean can be as scary as it is beautiful.
This was in a bay though
@@Payote88 Yeah. Imagine what an ocean could do? What? 10,000+ feet? Sounds even worse.
@@Edgeverse i've heard that if the asteroid that killed the dinossaurs hit the ocean, it would have caused a 4km wave, just imagine 0_0
Lakes are not safe either. There's evidence that a massive landslide 563 AD caused a huge tsunami on Lake Geneva.
In my imagination, it must even be worse in a closed body of water where the energy can't travel out to sea. Just imagine the whole lake sloshing back and forth like water in a bathtub.
That’s not a wave, that’s a heart attack waiting to happen and crap your pants 😂😂
ITS TIME FOR TIDAL WAVE JUMPSCARE!!!
That's really hard to fathom how destructive that really was. 😭
The awesome power of nature makes us and anything we do on this planet seem insectile
The trees that got hit with saltwater are literally petrified and still there to this day iirc
i’d be petrified too if i got hit with a wave that big
@@DeepF-r5g good job
Bruh i still need 240 fps to beat it :(
ALSP TIDALWAVE?!!?????? GD?!?!?
I'm surprised that they didn't mention the father and son that experienced it. They were fishing on a boat. The kid was 8yrs old and they survived it.
Yeah they literally surfed it with their boat
Now imagine the wave that was created by the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs…
If I remember correctly it was estimated to have reached around 5km high (16 400 feet)
False, the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatán peninsula is relatively shallow. The Chicxulub impactor therefore only caused a tsunami ~100 m high. If it had hit the earth in a deeper part of the ocean, the wave could have reached 5 km high. I reckon that's what you read and remembered incorrectly.
@@SonKunSama That’s what you saw when the asteroid came huh?
Dinosaurs never existed.
@@granny58 Tell me you're just joking.
California's central valley was turned into a sea by an ancient tsunami
This pales in comparison to the tsunamis caused by the Chicxulub impact (the Dino-killer). When they initially reached land on what would one day be the southern United States, the waves were a staggering two and a half miles high.
Which makes this tsunami look like a baby.
Because of that the Great Plains from Texas northward were born.
2 Chronicles 7:14.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land"
Interstellar was the last movie I've seen at a theater. Cancer and several other incidents left me with what I assume is a kind of PTSD. Can't tolerate crowds, closed spaces, and panic attacks from nowhere. I used to think people were just exaggerating or needed just to get ahold of themselves. I can usually minimize it but when that cold terror overtakes and you pour sweet from head to toe. It just has to pass. I'm a 6 foot 1, over 200 lbs and fear was never a problem but this isn't fear, it's an irrational physical assault. This has nothing to do with the subject of tidal waves, the reference to the movie "INTERSTELLAR" reminded me of the last time I was able to see a movie. It helps to write it down. I didn't like Interstellar at all by the way. I understand that time is not always linear and most probably is a function of mass and gravity as Einstein theorized. Einstein said the universe is not just strange but stranger than we can imagine (paraphrased).The movie must have been totally confusing to most of the public. It just annoyed me with all the doors of possibility. It was like a night with no floor or walls to stand on or find your way out of. I'm an old man with a degree in science and a life long science fiction fascination. UA-cam is a great place to keep your mind active especially when your old. Most people aren't intellectually curios so there's few if any to converse with. This allows me to talk to myself forming a narrative. I've always required little sleep and can work for long periods of time. I recently read there is a genetic cause for this. Like right now it's 3pm and I'll probably get a few hours sleep eventually and do it again. My wife of 40 years is not bothered by this to much, thankfully. I don't really care if anyone reads this or comments. Keeps a person focused. Nighty, night.
I enjoyed reading this lol.
@@vaughnrichards1645 Thanks. Some time ago I discovered I couldn't remember consonant and vowel sounds, phonics. My doctor told me not to worry about it. It bothered me a lot because in school I rarely misspelled. Oddly reading hasn't been a problem. It didn't make sense. I suppose it's "use it or loose it" might be the problem but I don't think so. Old age is something you can't prepare for. You just have to experience it.
@@rickhale4348 do you think you're experiencing some symptoms of dementia?
@@BuzzKirill3D My doctor assures me I'm not. Why do you ask?
@@rickhale4348 I'm trying to find out ways to see it in myself early in case I eventually have it.
5 deaths are believed to have occurred.... although apparently a group of 20 campers were meant to have been by the side of the lake that night but thankfully changing their minds and most likely saving their lives
One man drove strait into the oncoming mega tsunami! Saving himself and his son. I think they were the only boaters to survive...
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What a chad
@@yulianayarimbloomberg3720 wtf are you talking about
Like the vid. But l must say, start using metric sistem like all civil world. Giv you a 100 fite of cable, wich fite yours, mine, japanese lady, or o'nile fote? I now, but realy. Yard, fote, galon, and so on. Litle rant. But it realy bugs me. Stay safe.
Everything’s bigger in Alaska
Now imagine being on a tiny boat with your son looking around and seeing the giant wave coming,because that’s exactly what happened ,the dad and son road the wave and survived,true story 😧
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What are you saying?
This wave set a man and his son in a fishing boat in the trees halfway up a mountain... An awesome documentary!
It was at full daylight in Alaska that the event occurred, and some fishing in the bay lived to document it…some even rode the wave in its entirety….there were lost lives aswell…the wave ride up was the most amazing part as it stripped the forests to the subsoils…it’s evident even to this day!
Daaaaaaaaamn 1700 ft you've lost me that's simply unfathomable.
It’s actually exactly 286 and two-thirds fathoms.
@@Rheija lol legend - I was about to look it up!!
Becomes more fathomable converted into meters imo.
@@Vingul To you lot who use the metric system, yeah. XD
I remember watching the doc on the Discovery channel, their was a boat in the bay with a father and son. The son recalled his father throwing him a floater and telling him to say one last prayer. He said the anchor chain snapped like a twig then up they went. Amazingly they road the wave and were left hundreds of feet high in the mountains hill.
Holy Mother Earth
Oh my goodness that was a real miracle of God!! The fear, alone would have killed most of us!!!
Yup I saw that too... plus I think there was a documentary about geology on the BBC which featured it too. I think it was because the wave went through a narrowing so rose up much higher to 500 meters - which is about the 1700ft mentioned here. It is simply beyond comprehension what it must have been like and even more so they both lived to tell the tale!!!
@@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311
👍...yup, thank you friend.
Couple great reads for people liking details: The Perfect Storm by Junger, and Gypsy Moth Circles the World by Chiceshire (both authors probably wrong spelling, sorry). The latter describes going through the Straits of Magellan in a sailboat, waves blocking the sky. The former explains the physics of how far a boat can go up the face of a wave without toppling bow over stern. Two great reads. 👍
I didn't read "The Perfect Storm" I watched it. The one with Wahlburg Clooney and numerous amazing actors including "Maid Marion" I can't remember her name tho she was Captian of her own ship. It was heartwrenching to see tho it must be even more reading it... and I just realized these might not be the same stories only by the same name. Amazing referrals tho I will probably check them out, thank you. Be Awesome Stay Excellent, Much Love 🤍✨️🦄
Not me living in Alaska getting scard I did not live here when it happened but I herd about it I live in Anchorage Alaska
Except for the two guys that surfed it in there boat and survived. More incredible than the actual wave... true story.
I saw a documentary on mega-tsunamis that mentioned this event. It included an interview with a guy who as a boy was anchored in this bay after a day’s fishing with his dad. He tells a gripping story that in summary described how the wave picked up their boat, transported it across a nearby peninsula, and dropped it in the ocean. He and his dad survived. Two other vessels in the vicinity and their occupants were not as lucky.
This is why I respect the power of mother nature
Never be arrogant towards her. She will bitch slap you
@@alexhowley9834 she could care less if you respect her or not. She’s going to do what she does regardless
@@tgj42495 you have a point. Isn’t it interesting how we (humans) put our own significance into anything and everything, as tho to establish some sort of relevance where it never relevant...
Yes, but who's the father?
Their is no “mother nature” that is false idolatry their is one Lord and one God and His name is Jehovah Jesus Christ.
“Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?””
Matthew 8:23-27
Two month nearly to the day when I was born. Why am I only just hearing about this now? It’s safe to say the sail boat bent like a toothpick.