What is the tallest wave ever officially recorded in the ocean?

Answer 1

July 9, 1958: A huge landslip caused a tsunami in the fjord shaped Lituya Bay, Alaska, USA. It traveled at over 150 km/h. It was the worlds tallest recorded tsunami at 524 m (1719 ft). 1883 - Krakatoa explosive eruption The island volcano of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded with devastating fury in 1883, blowing its underground magma chamber partly empty so that much overlying land and seabed collapsed into it. A series of large tsunami waves was generated from the collapse, some reaching a height of over 40 metres above sea level. Tsunami waves were observed throughout the Indian ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the American West Coast, South America, and even as far away as the English Channel. On the facing coasts of Java and Sumatra the sea flood went many miles inland and caused such vast loss of life that one area was never resettled but went back to the jungle and is now the Ujung Kulon nature reserve. For instance, the tsunami which hit the island of Hokkaido on July 12, 1993 created waves as much as 30 m (100 ft) tall - as high as a 10-story building. The port town of Aonae was completely surrounded by a tsunami wall, but the waves washed right over the wall and destroyed all the wood-framed structures in the area. The wall may have succeeded in slowing down and moderating the height of the tsunami but it did not prevent major destruction and loss of life. http://t14web.lanl.gov/Research/TDAC2000/mader.tsunami.00.pdf

Answer 2

The largest waves are Tsunamis, Tsunamis happen because because of normal earthquakes underwater, the largest annd most deadly happened in Japan, killed a record of an estimated 150,000 people

Answer 3

The biggest wave ever recordedmeasures in at 1740ft or 530.352 metres

Answer 4

at the antinodes