2024 Pedersen Lagoon landslide tsunami
At approximately 5:00 a.m. on 7 August 2024 a landslide-triggered wave washed over portions of Pedersen Lagoon, near Aialik Bay on the coast of southern Alaska. The National Park Service gave the position as 59.8842N, 149.7309W in its release on the event.
- Date and time (UTC)
- 2024-08-07T12:54
- Highest recorded water height (m)
- 62
- Cause, as the catalogue records it
- landslide
- NCEI event page
- www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/5929
Category: Disasters & Incidents
Tags: landslide, alaska, kenai fjords, lagoon
Coordinates: 59.904, -149.825
Part of Tsunamis with waves of 30 metres or more since 1950
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