I heard this one story from my mom.
This one family lived in a mud hut right by the beach. They had three boys, a 2-year old, a 4-year old, and a 7 year old,and thier dog. The father was up on a hill, and he saw the tsunami coming. He yelled down to his wife telling her to get thier sons and run up the hill. The wife grabbed the two youngest children and figured that the 7 year old would follow. He didn't. He was so scared he ran back into the hut. The wife couldn't do anything, so she just kept running. Amazingly, the dog turned around and dragged the boy out of the hut and onto the hill to safety.
I heard that the wave was 50 ft. at some points.
My science teacher told us that the wold was shifted so much that we shifted on the axis, and there were 3/1,000,000 or a second added on to our year. So in a million years, we will have to add three seconds to our year.