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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

earthquake caused a mud/rock slide down a mountain into the end of the bay/cove which was kind of a valley on the coast. The mud/rock slide that slide into the end of the bay caused a wave to flow up and over the other side of the "valley". I saw a show (history channel, Nat Geo, something like that) on it once.

IIRC, there were boats in the bay/cove (which has a narrow mouth) that were carried on the resulting wave out of the bay over the fingers that separated the bay/cove from the ocean.

The lighter areas of the shore are where trees and soil were washed away by the wave.

2-6, 12, and 14? WTF? I don't think I've ever heard those. When we lived in Japan, I'd walk to the bus stop in the winter with hair so wet that by the time I got to the bus stop it would be frozen, and that did not give me a cold (or make my head cold).