A second and significantly more dramatic river wave took place in January 2024 in the Colorado River in Texas. It was 30 feet (9 m) tall, spanned 166 miles (267 km), and moved at around 3.5 feet ...

And in 1958, an earthquake off the coast of Alaska triggered a tsunami so large that it would have easily engulfed the Empire State Building. According to the NASA Earth Observatory, the 1958 ...