The Biggest Tsunami Ever Recorded: Inside the 1,720-Foot Wave (Video)

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be broken (if it hasn’t already, despite what the record books say).

But what’s the biggest wave ever recorded, sans surfing?

That terrifying title goes to the 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska earthquake and megatsunami. The size of the behemoth? Experts clocked it at 1,720 feet. And Maui’s Ridge Lenny...