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A bare chunk of rock on the hillside adjacent to the water shows where the land slid into the fjord to generate the tsunami.
Aerial photo of the Aug. 10, 2025 landslide, terminus of South Sawyer Glacier, and Tracy Arm taken on Aug. 13, 2025. Note the trimline along the far side of the fjord, caused by the tsunami stripping the walls of vegetation.

Credit: Cyrus Read/U.S. Geological Survey.

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