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    A megatsunami is a very large wave created by a large, sudden displacement of material into a body of water. Megatsunamis have different features from...
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    kilometers (50 mi) away, and the sudden displacement of water resulted in a megatsunami that washed out trees to a maximum elevation of 524 meters (1,719 feet)...
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    the retreat of Tyndall Glacier. The resulting landslide generated a megatsunami in Taan Fjord. The area is uninhabited and no one was visiting it at...
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    1792 Unzen landslide and tsunami (category Megatsunamis)
    once reached a height of 330 ft (100 m), classing this tsunami as a megatsunami. At the Osaki-bana point Futsu town, the waves locally grew to a height...
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    eyewitness report of the existence of megatsunamis. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lituya Bay megatsunami. Lituya Mountain Guinness World Records...
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  • modern technology and scientific research. One of the largest was a megatsunami resulting from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Studying paleotsunamis...
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    Works. On 9 October 1963, during initial filling, a landslide caused a megatsunami in the lake in which 50,000,000 m3 (1.8×109 cu ft) of water overtopped...
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  • Madagascar. Based on a hypothesis that these dunes were formed by a megatsunami resulting from an impact, the researchers were able to triangulate the...
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  • Prevention Agency assures him that South Korea is at no risk, but a large megatsunami forms because of a landslide near Japan and starts to travel towards...
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    count as a megatsunami, with the highest prediction for Western Sahara comparable to the Japanese tsunami, so it would only be a megatsunami locally in...
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