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Perspective view of the seafloor offshore Chenega village.

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Perspective view of the seafloor offshore Chenega village. Light-blue patches in the intermediate basin outline sites of sediment loss between 1957 and 2014; the light-tan patch in the distal (lowermost) basin is a site of sediment deposition. Black arrows are interpreted sediment-flow pathways. White arrows near Chenega Village show the inferred 1964 tsunami travel direction, and yellow lines mark areas struck by high tsunami waves. (Brothers, D.S., Haeussler, P.J., Liberty, L., Finlayson, D., Geist, E., Labay, K., and Byerly, M., 2016, A submarine landslide source for the devastating 1964 Chenega tsunami, southern Alaska: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 438, p. 112–121 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.008].) 

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