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=Alaskan Tsunami=

//1900's Lituya Bay, Alaskan Tsunami//
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[|Multimedia/person and nature effect] [|Multimedia] Effects:

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The effects of the Lituya Bay tsunami shocked most Alaskans with the enormity of the tsunami. The once beautiful fishing spot and landscape was completely demolished by a 1720 foot tall wave. It uprooted trees and carried the rest of the lands contents to the Gulf of Alaska, including a couple survivors, and a man and woman who supposedly drowned, but their bodies were not found. The survivors boats and belongings were lost and destroyed; a moment between life and death was experienced. It wiped the bays marine life out of the area, possibly killing most of it, and left nothing but a path of destruction. =====

Personal Reflection:

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I think it's quite amazing how rocks were what actually caused the formation of the tsunami, opposed to an earthquake just individually causing it. What I mean is this 7.7 earthquake caused a large amount of rocks to fall 3,000 feet into the water causing a 1720 foot wave to wipe out the Lituya Bay area, the land around it, Cenotaph Island, Gilbert Inlet, Crillon Inlet, and finally the rest of the wave into the Gulf of Alaska. Basically two natural disasters combined into one enormous natural disaster, uprooting trees and killing vegetation. Because of the Fairweather Fault I believe it was imminent for an earthquake to happen and coupled with a tsunami, being right on the bay, a moderate wave could have been more manageable, but to a scale this size it is unpredictable to any degree. Although the fault was known there really was no way of preparing for something as astronomical as a wave significantly taller than the Empire State Building to destroy the Lituya area. I think it’s incredibly devastating to have such a beautiful place be stolen of its life. To have a huge span of trees and nature be completely submerged underwater, would be an insane thing to see. Even though sea life was not mentioned in any of my articles and research, I assume from the force of the wave and debris floating around, it killed most of the fish and other sea life. ======

5 questions: 1) What fault was the earthquake triggered by? 2) What was the date the tsunami took place/ was it night or day? 3) What island (in the middle of Lituya Bay) was also swept over my the tsunami? 4) What nature sources (2) were removed by the force of the wave? 5) Although there was an earthquake, according to geology.com what was they second action that caused a 1720 foot tall tsunami?