Natural disasters like the one at Tracy Arm fjord, about 45 miles south of Juneau, could become more common as climate change ...
On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...
The narrow sea inlet, nestled within the Tongass National Forest and famed for its towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and glaciers, witnessed the tsunami surge violently, stripping vegetation from ...
In 2025, the retreating South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska's Tracy Arm, a fjord near Juneau, triggered a large landslide. As debris from the landslide smashed into the water, it triggered a megatsunami ...
New satellite images are helping scientists understand a major tsunami that changed the landscape of a popular tourist ...
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1,500-foot tsunami, massive landslide reshape Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord
On August 10, 2025, a massive geological event reshaped the Tracy Arm fjord in ...
It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and co-author of a recent Science study that reconstructed this event in detail.
Across our warming world, the ground is growing less stable. Nowhere is the problem more evident than in Alaska, where one ...
Just last year, a massive landslide in Alaska triggered a megatsunami that researchers have now mapped and ...
Researchers say 481-metre wave in fjord was triggered by rockslide linked to climate crisis ...
The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving immense destruction in its wake. Scientists have made it possible for you to ex ...
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