LucVanLierde
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Everyone agree that there is jack shite on tv now. Yep, well that being said, every once in awhile something very interesting catches your eye.
I watched a very interesting documentry on Latuya Bay the other day. Mind Blowing to say the least. It's hard to wrap your head around some of it.
Anyway, what happened at Lituya was movement along the fault that runs from left to right in the above picture. If you pretend you're actually standing on the ridgetop looking out over the Bay (like the view in the below picture) the fault would be in the mountains behind you. The "movement in the fault", of course, is called an earthquake. The magnitude of the quake was about 8.3, although some sources say it was a 7.9, on the Richter Scale (a scale for measuring the magnitude, or amount of energy released, from an earthquake). Pretty awesome shaker. Well, shaker it was...it "shook" loose an estimated 40 million cubic yards of dirt and glacier from a mountainside at the head of the Bay, about where you're standing in the above picture. When the stuff went "kersploosh" into the water it created a massive wave that washed 1,720 ft/524m high over the headland in the right side of the above picture. You can see the damage to the trees that were growing on the headland when the wave washed over the top of it - there were no trees left...wiped 'em clean off. The picture at left gives you a closer view of the damage to the headland that the tidal waves caused.
man Witnesses
There were three fishing boats anchored at the mouth of Lituya Bay on the day the awesome waves happened. That's the main reason we know it happened. There were human witnesses to the catastrophic event. Unfortunately, one of the boats was close to shore and the huge waves overtook it killing the two people on board. Amazingly, the other two boats "rode" the tidal waves as they washed from the source of the landslide and resonated around the bay, like water sloshing in a wash basin. The boaters watched in horror as the first enormous wave engulfed the small fishing boat and wiped everything in its path off the land, like wiping up crumbs with a kitchen sponge. If there had been a town or city on the shores of the bay everyone in it would have been killed. Fortunately, because it was an unpopulated area, the loss of life was minimal (although, the family of the victims hardly think that it was good fortune).
So, How Do They Know...?
To measure the height of the biggest wave, all scientists had to do was look for the high water mark - that's the line where the water reached it's highest point on the nearby land. It's real easy to find, you just look for the uppermost edge of the damaged area (see photo at left).
Then, they measured the elevation of the highest point on the high water mark to get a measurement of 1,720 ft/524 high - the biggest wave ever measured.
They rode a wave 1720 ft high in their boat.....holy fukc...thats higher then the twin towers were. Thank about that shite.
Anyways I found it very interesting, thought I would pass it along.
Fore more info just search " Lituya Bay"
I watched a very interesting documentry on Latuya Bay the other day. Mind Blowing to say the least. It's hard to wrap your head around some of it.
Anyway, what happened at Lituya was movement along the fault that runs from left to right in the above picture. If you pretend you're actually standing on the ridgetop looking out over the Bay (like the view in the below picture) the fault would be in the mountains behind you. The "movement in the fault", of course, is called an earthquake. The magnitude of the quake was about 8.3, although some sources say it was a 7.9, on the Richter Scale (a scale for measuring the magnitude, or amount of energy released, from an earthquake). Pretty awesome shaker. Well, shaker it was...it "shook" loose an estimated 40 million cubic yards of dirt and glacier from a mountainside at the head of the Bay, about where you're standing in the above picture. When the stuff went "kersploosh" into the water it created a massive wave that washed 1,720 ft/524m high over the headland in the right side of the above picture. You can see the damage to the trees that were growing on the headland when the wave washed over the top of it - there were no trees left...wiped 'em clean off. The picture at left gives you a closer view of the damage to the headland that the tidal waves caused.
man Witnesses
There were three fishing boats anchored at the mouth of Lituya Bay on the day the awesome waves happened. That's the main reason we know it happened. There were human witnesses to the catastrophic event. Unfortunately, one of the boats was close to shore and the huge waves overtook it killing the two people on board. Amazingly, the other two boats "rode" the tidal waves as they washed from the source of the landslide and resonated around the bay, like water sloshing in a wash basin. The boaters watched in horror as the first enormous wave engulfed the small fishing boat and wiped everything in its path off the land, like wiping up crumbs with a kitchen sponge. If there had been a town or city on the shores of the bay everyone in it would have been killed. Fortunately, because it was an unpopulated area, the loss of life was minimal (although, the family of the victims hardly think that it was good fortune).
So, How Do They Know...?
To measure the height of the biggest wave, all scientists had to do was look for the high water mark - that's the line where the water reached it's highest point on the nearby land. It's real easy to find, you just look for the uppermost edge of the damaged area (see photo at left).
Then, they measured the elevation of the highest point on the high water mark to get a measurement of 1,720 ft/524 high - the biggest wave ever measured.
They rode a wave 1720 ft high in their boat.....holy fukc...thats higher then the twin towers were. Thank about that shite.
Anyways I found it very interesting, thought I would pass it along.
Fore more info just search " Lituya Bay"
