{"id":3540,"date":"2009-07-12T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2009-07-12T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T18:02:23","slug":"july_9_1958_sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"July 9, 1958: Surf\u2019s Up, as 1,700-Foot Wave Scours Alaskan Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/thisdayintech\/2009\/07\/dayintech_0709\/\">Tony Long<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>1958: The tallest wave ever recorded \u2014 splashing nearly 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building \u2014 explodes down Lituya Bay in the Gulf of Alaska.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\nLituya Bay is a T-shaped fjord on the coast of the Alaskan Panhandle, west of Glacier Bay and about 120 miles west-northwest of Juneau. It measures 7 miles long by 2 miles at its widest point and has a narrow mouth (roughly 1,600 feet wide) that makes navigation difficult during high tides. Once inside, however, vessels (mostly fishing boats) find a snug anchorage among the coves lining the shore. Water from three glaciers empties into Lituya Bay, which is over 700 feet deep in places.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\nThis topography was a major ingredient in the formation of the tsunami. (Or, more informally, megatsunami, a word used to describe a wave in excess of 100 meters, or 328 feet).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/thisdayintech\/2009\/07\/dayintech_0709\/\">Tony Long<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>1958: The tallest wave ever recorded \u2014 splashing nearly 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building \u2014 explodes down Lituya Bay in the Gulf of Alaska.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\nLituya Bay is a T-shaped fjord on the coast of the Alaskan Panhandle, west of Glacier Bay and about 120 miles west-northwest of Juneau. It measures 7 miles long by 2 miles at its widest point and has a narrow mouth (roughly 1,600 feet wide) that makes navigation difficult during high tides. Once inside, however, vessels (mostly fishing boats) find a snug anchorage among the coves lining the shore. Water from three glaciers empties into Lituya Bay, which is over 700 feet deep in places.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\nThis topography was a major ingredient in the formation of the tsunami. (Or, more informally, megatsunami, a word used to describe a wave in excess of 100 meters, or 328 feet).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}