<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Keith Henson wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>That's 77 feet, 5 inches. Or, about the height of a six- or<br>seven-story building. It wasn't a record, though. Kyodo says that:<br><br>"The tsunami wave measured in the city of Ofunato was lower than the<br>domestic record of 38.2 meters [125 feet. 4 inches] marked in the 1896<br>Meiji Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami, and 34.9 meters [114 feet, 6 inches]<br>logged in the wake of the 2004 earthquake off the Indonesian coast of<br>Sumatra."<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not a record either, the record for the tallest tsunami ever recorded is 524 meters (1,724 feet) at Lituya Bay Alaska on July 9 1958.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>