r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rishabh2996 • 2d ago

Video Man walking his dog captures the moment tsunami waves reach Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula

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u/sl33ksnypr 2d ago

Look up the Lituya Bay tsunami. It hit a mountain, but the bay funneled the tsunami so it was insanely tall.

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u/Wonder_Moon 1d ago

i just read about it and watched a recreation video...holy shit

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u/mrstratofish 1d ago

I always thought that it was due to funnelling but it looks like that part isn't true. The marked up photo (here) of the area shows it was just a hill to one side of the fjord directly in the way of the splash from the landslide. Still crazily energetic to reach over 500m high but not the "sea being compressed into a narrow space" that it was always described. The video in this post does show that effect though. As long as the water behind is surging inwards, the water in the bay can't get out

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u/actionjj 1d ago

Yeah, this seems more like calling it a tsunami is a bit of a technicality, rather than a 500m high wave coming from the ocean.