This photograph of the moai at Ahu Tongariki was taken in the early morning from Rano Raraku. The ahu was placed so that it is aligned with the rising summer solstice sun. The ahu is 321 feet long, 20 feet wide and 13 feet high and includes fifteen moai of different shapes and sizes. Some of the moai are thin, some are fat and one is even sporting a topknot. The tallest moai is 46 feet high and the shortest is 18 feet high and the average weight of the moai 40 tons. At one time, the site included up to 30 moai, but it was destroyed by a tsunami in May of 1960. The water level during the surge is reported to have reached 500 feet and the moai were swept up to 2100 feet inland (keep in mind that they each weigh 40 tons!). In the mid 1990's a Japanese crane company donated a crane to re-erect 15 of the moai at the site with the blessings of the Chilean government but without the full sanctions of the island representatives or archaeologists. Chilean archeologists from the university of Chile, specialists from the Nara Institute of Japan, experts in stone conservation and forty islanders spent five years restoring the site. One of the moai bowled over by the tsunami was left on its face some distance from the ahu to show how far the moai were swept by the wave.