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Old Jun 5, 2008 | 1:27 am
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bifyu
 
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Originally Posted by bifyu
51. Hawaiʻi has been the source of some of the biggest landslides on Earth. The resulting tsunamis are thought to have been hundreds of feet high.

I can't figure out how to get FlyerTalk's forum software to not gag on this monster URL as an inserted link, but this paper below has more interesting info about that. The images of the slide debris relative to the islands are pretty impressive.
Oops, looks like that URL was behind a paywall. It worked when accessed via Google's search results, but it seems to have expired.

Let's try again with a link to a PDF version of the paper.

A very nice color bathymetry image showing the slides is available from the USGS as well.
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