Indonesian Earthquake.

Reported Magnitude 8.9.
10+meter Tsunamis reported in Thailand, Bangladesh, Siri Lanka. Some islands in the Maldives completely flooded.
Aftershocks in the area in the 7+ range.
This is the largest quake since Alaska 1964.
link:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

>>14
Um... how about California?

>>22
What people fail to realize is that the Richter scale is logrithmic (base 10).  An earthquake that rates a scale 8 is 10 times more powerful than a scale 7. 

>>25
Admittedly, when 11 September 2001 occured, I felt very little.  It is somewhat the same in this case.  Oddly enough, when the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded, I was saddened.