‘Nothing quite like a 1,500-foot splash wave’: Scientist describes firsthand account of landslide, tsunami damage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – In the early morning of August 10, 2025 in Southeast Alaska, only a few people are known to have been within a few miles of Tracy Arm, just South of Juneau, when Mother Nature decided to show her force and leave a scar on the land.

The narrow fjord has two glaciers at the end of it, North Sawyer Glacier and South Sawyer Glacier.

The glacier on the south side would be forever altered that morning by a strong force that was not just the melting it had already been facing…

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