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The biggest wave in the world that has news happened on July 9, 1958, in Lituya Bay, Alaska. It all started when a huge earthquake (which reached between 7.9 and 8.3 points on the Richter scale) shook the Fairweather fault, 13 km from where the wave broke. The shaking, which was felt in an area of 400,000 km², caused approximately 30 million m³ of earth and stones to be thrown into the sea. The impact of this mass on the water raised a tidal wave 524 m high! Just to give you an idea, the biggest wave ever surfed, by the Hawaiian Garrett McNamara in November last year, was “only” 27 m! The champion tsunami would easily beat the Empire State, a 102-story building in New York, which is about 443 m. Luckily, this disaster hit an uninhabited area, destroying only the local vegetation.
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