In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of the ...
The highest reliably recorded tsunami occurred in 1958 in Alaska when a massive landslide fell into Lituya Bay. The resulting wave that crashed into the other side of the bay was 1,700 feet high.