Scientists find tsunami produced 90-foot wave

February 18, 2005 | Photos | By: Mark VandeWettering

San Francisco Ferry BuildingI was reading this article from the San Francisco Chronicle, which says that last December’s tsunami create a wave 90 feet high. They said that the wave would have reached the clock of the San Francisco Ferry Building (not the top, which is 248 feet, but the lower edge of the clock face). Here is a picture of the building from 1898. I reckon that entire scaffolding would have been underwater.

Ouch.