Waves came in as much as five feet high, ripping through low lying areas.
Five villages were severely damaged by the wave and it's preceding quake.
The tsunami was set off by an 8.0 quake, which struck just after noon (SITZ).
Wednesday's quake occurred about fifty miles west of the Santa Cruz island chain.
Lata, the main island in the chain and the closest to the quake, saw most of the damage and all of the casualties.
Several aftershocks, over 6.0, followed it in succession, but after an hour things began calming down.
Tsunami watches and warnings had sprung out over the Pacific, but nowhere else saw anything, and most cancelled theirs, before the time came.
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