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Watch a 138-foot tsunami wipe out this lighthouse in the dark
At 1:30 a.m. on April 1, 1946, a massive earthquake shook the remote Scotch Cap Lighthouse station on Alaska’s Unimak Island, ...
In spring of 1946, five men stationed at the Scotch Cap lighthouse had reasons to be happy. World War II was over. They had survived. Their lonely Coast Guard assignment on Unimak Island would be over ...
A massive earthquake struck off Alaska in the dark of night, but the sea around Scotch Cap seemed calm at first. Then a towering tsunami—estimated at 138 feet—raced into the remote lighthouse and ...
Scotch Cap lighthouse two months before the tsunami of April 1, 1946. The lighthouse was a few miles from the epicenter on Unimak Island, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard) In spring of 1946, five ...
In the spring of 1946, five men stationed at the Scotch Cap lighthouse had reasons to be happy. World War II was over. They had survived. Their lonely Coast Guard assignment on Unimak Island would be ...
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