I've seen some contemporary accounts of the event from an English perspective, but I'm curious to know what (if anything) was thought of this abroad. I would also be open to hearing more about this event generally, as the wiki article on it is relatively sparse.
(Also, "tsunami" is just a best guess, at this point -- there seems to be evidence that it might instead have been a storm surge. I am no oceanographer, though!)
As an additional question, I would love to understand if this was a tsunami. I would think that a Tsunami capable of causing damage like this would have been felt as an earthquake somewhere locally and recorded.