That was definitely a "big one"
I was looking at the USGS site on deaths from quakes a week or so ago. they have a US list and a world historical list.
Its amazing how many deaths in US were actually tsunami related. I tend to think of the ones I remember 89 and 94 in Cali....and big historical ones like 06 San Fran, but as you go back over the years many of the big death events were tsunami related. Feel sorry for Hawaii, they seem to get smacked every once in a while from quakes thousands of miles away (chile2, alaska...)
Andrew