The Biggest Tsunami

You might think that the world's biggest tsunami happened in Japan, but you are wrong. The Biggest tsunami happened in Alaska.

On July 9th, 1958, an earthquake hit Alaska Panhandle. The earthquake spreaded to northeastern shore of Lituya Bay. A mass of rock plunged down about 914 meters into the water. The impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the southwest shoreline of Gilbert Inlet. The wave hit with too much power that it went over the land that divided Gilbert Inlet and Lituya Bay. The wave continued along the Lituya Bay and then over La Chaussee and over Gulf of Alaska. The wave swept all the trees from elevations as high as 524 meters above sea level. Millions of trees were uprooted by the wave. That was the biggest tsunami.

Lituya Bay is a ice covered inlet on the northeast shore of Gulf of Alaska. It is about 11 kilometers long. 2 kilometers wide and it's 219 meters deep.

The biggest Earthquake since 1900

Since 1900, the biggest Earthquake was in Chili. It was in 1977 on May 22. The magnitude was 9.5 which injured 3000 people and 1655 people died. Five million people were homeless after the Earthquake. The horrible Earthquake damaged $100 million in the southside of Chili. That wasn't the end, the earthquake caused a huge tsunami to Hawaii, it caused 61 deaths, 75 million dollars of damage. Also it created another tsunami in Japan, there was 138 deaths and 50 million dollars of damge. That is about the world's biggest earthquake since 1900.