The 2025 Tracy Arm tsunami reached skyscraper heights
The wave's peak height is second only to the Lituya Bay tsunami in 1958.
Tsunami runup, feet
TALLEST
1,776 feet
Height of Freedom Tower, US
1,739 ft
1,578
≤5 fatalities*
886
2,000 fatalities
Tracy Arm, Alaska, US
Casso, Italy
Lituya Bay, Alaska, US
1963
1958
2025
HIGH FATALITY
1,776 feet
The 2004 Sumatra tsunami is the deadliest in recorded history, killing more than 227,899.
886
2,000 fatalities
128 ft
18,423 fatalities
167
Sumatra, Indonesia
Honshu Island, Japan
Casso, Italy
1963
2011
2004
TALLEST
1,776 feet
Height of Freedom Tower, US
1,739 ft
1,578
≤5 fatalities*
886
2,000 fatalities
Lituya Bay, Alaska, US
Tracy Arm, Alaska, US
Casso, Italy
1963
1958
2025
HIGH FATALITY
1,776 feet
The 2004 Sumatra tsunami is the deadliest in recorded history, killing more than 227,899.
886
2,000 fatalities
128 ft
18,423 fatalities
167
Sumatra, Indonesia
Honshu Island, Japan
Casso, Italy
1963
2004
2011
1,776 feet
1,739 feet
≤5 fatalities*
1,578
886
2,000 fatalities
The 2004 Sumatra tsunami is the deadliest in recorded history, killing more than 227,899.
18,423 fatalities
167
128
Lituya Bay, Alaska, US
Tracy Arm, Alaska, US
Casso, Italy
Sumatra, Indonesia
Honshu Island, Japan
Freedom Tower, New York, US
1958
2025
1963
2004
2011
TALLEST
HIGH FATALITY
