First, this list is the largest known eruptions ... kilometers out from the volcano across the Alaska Peninsula and into the ...

But it stopped short of the state's largest city of Anchorage ... It devastated Anchorage and unleashed a tsunami that slammed the Gulf of Alaska, the US west coast, and Hawaii.

Tsunamis form from sudden water movements, mainly undersea earthquakes, spreading waves across oceans and increasing as they ...

The tsunami breaches an embankment and flowing into the city of Miyako Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest ... almost all of Alaska and caused ...

The biggest, baddest waves aren ... An earthquake followed by a landslide in 1958 in Alaska’s Lituya Bay generated a wave 100 feet high, the tallest tsunami ever documented.

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis ... An example is a fjord wall that collapsed in 1958 in ...

The volcano last erupted in 1992. The volcano is roughly 80 miles from Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. In the event of an eruption, ash could fall over Anchorage, disrupting travel and raising ...

This earthquake was the largest in recorded North American history, at 8.9 on the Richter scale, producing tsunami waves that caused $450 million in damage to the Alaskan coast, $10 million (in US ...