‘I looked up, and I saw a wave coming’: 2025 Tracy Arm tsunami survivors share experience, researchers search for solutions

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – It’s happened again.

About 84 million cubic yards of mountainside were left unsupported after South Sawyer glacier retreated.

The newly-exposed land came crashing down into deep fjord waters on Aug. 10, 2025, causing what scientists called a “mega tsunami” in Tracy Arm, which sits south of Juneau.

The force from the landslide pushed the water about about 1,600 feet up the fjord wall…

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