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Landslides are a regular hazard in Alaska’s coastal mountains, where fast uplift from tectonic forces and long-term ice loss ...

May 6 (Reuters) - Tracy Arm Fjord, in southeastern Alaska within the Tongass National Forest, presents a majestic vista, with a narrow sea inlet surrounded by towering granite cliffs, waterfalls and ...

A glacier that had held a mountainside steady for millennia retreated just enough to expose unstable rock, and on August 10, 2025, that rock fell into Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord, creating a tsunami 481 ...

Any large movement of land that causes major displacement of ocean water—from earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic eruptions—can generate a tsunami. Tsunamis generated in Alaska have caused damage and ...

At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock ...

Scientists say as glaciers retreat in a warming climate, landslide-generated tsunamis are likely to become more frequent. Scientists say as glaciers retreat in a warming climate, landslide-generated ...

A team has analysed the gigantic wave of 480 meters in height that affected a fjord through which around twenty tourist boats pass daily during the summer. The loss of glacier ice due to climate ...

A massive landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord triggered one of the tallest tsunamis ever recorded, sending water 481 meters—about 1,578 feet—up the opposite wall of the fjord in what scientists are ...

Huge 2025 Tsunami in Alaska Fjord Was Second-Highest on Record By Will Dunham May 6 (Reuters) - Tracy Arm Fjord, in southeastern Alaska within the Tongass National Forest, presents ⁠a ⁠majestic vista, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial photo of the August 10, 2025 landslide taken from across the fjord during a U.S. Geological Survey field reconnaissance ...

Tracy Arm Fjord tsunami was 1,578 feet (481 meters) high The wave rose higher than New York's Empire State Building No ships were present when it occured at 5:30 a.m. and no one was hurt Climate ...