The Giant Wave of Icy Bay

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Apr 8, 2016   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

A landslide last fall caused a giant wave of the type not seen in Alaska since the storied 1958 event in Lituya Bay. After a period of heavy rains, a mountainside near Tyndall Glacier collapsed into a fiord of Icy Bay on October 17, 2015. The displaced water generated a wave that sheared alders more […]