A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...

the Third Largest Boulder in the World In the remote island nation of Tonga, where the Pacific Ocean meets huge cliffs, the coastline has been a witness to ancient power. Humongous rocks lying in ...

This boulder, however, started off on top of a 30 meter (100 foot) high cliff, beyond the reach of normal sized tsunamis. In earthquake-prone parts of the world, seashores often host boulders that ...

The Maka Lahi boulder is the largest cliff-top boulder in the world, researchers said. Photo by Köhler, M., Lau, A., Nakata, K., Goto, K., Goff, J., Köhler, D. and ...

It now has the honor of being the third largest tsunami-swept rock in the world. And it’s the largest boulder known to have surfed a tsunami from a cliff. The team then used computer modeling to ...