A landslide early Sunday morning in the Endicott Arm area of Alaska near the state’s capital triggered a local tsunami with waves estimated to be up to 15 feet high.

According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, people boating in the Endicott Arm area reported a mysterious local tsunami near Harbor Island.

Three kayakers camping on Harbor Island reported losing most of their gear, but made it back to Juneau safely, the Earthquake Center said.

Waves were estimated to be around 10–15 feet high near Harbor Island.

The National Park Service reported a tsunami of 100 feet scraped trees off the rocky slopes of Sawyer Island.

Ezgi Karasözen, a research scientist at the Earthquake Center, discovered that there was no earthquake detected in the area to cause the tsunami and the area was outsid

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