1853 Lituya Bay landslide and tsunami

A tsunami is understood to have occurred on 1 January 1853 in Lituya Bay, then part of Russian America. Written records of it are scant, but later study of the bay identified the event and attributed it to a large landslide on the south shore near Mudslide Creek.

Date and time (UTC)

1853

Highest recorded water height (m)

120

Cause, as the catalogue records it

landslide

NCEI event page

www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/805

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: landslide, alaska, lituya bay, 19th century

Coordinates: 58.63, -137.57

Part of Tsunamis with waves of 15 metres or more from 1800 to 1899

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