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Where and when was a tsunami over 500 meters high recorded?

In 1958, a powerful earthquake was recorded in Alaska, accompanied by a landslide of 30 million cubic meters of rock and ice into Lituya Bay. This caused the so-called megatsunami - a wave with a height of 524 meters, the highest recorded by mankind, which hit the mountains adjacent to the sea.

Due to the sparsely populated area, the death toll was limited to only five. A similar landslide at the Vaiont Dam in Italy in 1963 raised a 250-meter-high wave that destroyed several villages and claimed the lives of more than two thousand people.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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First, let's try to define what weather is. Despite the fact that every person uses this word all the time, for many such a question will cause difficulty. Weather is the state of the atmosphere in a particular region of the Earth. It can be cold or hot, dry or rainy, windy or calm. Any combination of varying amounts of moisture, heat, and movement in the atmosphere is weather. And it is in constant change hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year.

Diurnal changes are caused by various processes in the atmosphere. Seasonal changes (from winter to spring, from spring to summer, etc.) occur due to the rotation of the Earth around the Sun. The causes of weather changes over the years have not been fully established, although recently one of them, and also playing a very significant role, is human production activity.

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Meteorologists - people who study the weather - predict what it will be like by looking at existing weather fronts. The front is the boundaries between the masses of warm and cold air or, for example, between cloud accumulations and clear skies. As a rule, weather changes, including such unpleasant phenomena as thunderstorms, snowfalls, and others, are associated with the movements of these fronts.

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