1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami

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8 points·rambunco··6 comments

US Geological Survey done at the time, with photos and eyewitness accounts: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0354c/report.pdf

It's seems it's not this event, but I remember watching a documentary about a fishing boat (commercial) in an Alaskan lake, where they watched the rockfall descend and cause a tsunami, which lifted their boat up, over the mountainside and deposited it into a different lake on the other side of the mountain.

Even after decades had passed you could see the sheer terror and awe of how they survived.

Edit: still cannot find the reference. But the Canary Islands are poised to wipe out southern England - a sizeable chunk of the NE facing island is ready to fall and would send a tsunami undimmed onto England / France.

The description of the photo here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lituya_Bay#/media/File:Lituya_... refers to a fishing boat being carried over the spit into the ocean. Perhaps this is what you were thinking of?

No, you're talking about the Lituya Bay megatsunami. Howard Ulrich and his son, Howard Jr. survived it just like you described.

Thanks folks - it was this :-)

As a side note this is my goto atheist argument. No way is it a miracle. If God existed, He would look at catching a boat in a tsunami and chucking it safely over a mountain to another lake and say "nah that's a bit obvious"

Was is this video? http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=5073

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