Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Indeed, the largest tsunami on record, which pounded southeastern Alaska back in 1958, was so huge that its effects can still be seen from space more than six decades on.

The biggest tsunami ever measured occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 9, 1958. It was 1,720 feet high - that's taller than any building in the world, almost 300 feet taller than the Sears ...

The deadliest recorded tsunamis include two this century. See the full list.